Zelensky's Covid-19 Disaster

Unremitting official distraction from objective assessment

President Volodymyr Zelensky said last week in Zagreb that Ukraine is currently experiencing a *second wave* of Covid-19 infections and that the country’s borders would be opened for foreigners “as soon as the ascertainment rate of coronavirus disease in Ukraine improves.”

Zelensky said Ukraine did well during the *first wave* of the disease when new daily infections ranged from 100 to 300. The *first wave* ended mid April.

Since the end of January, Zelensky has successfully avoided criticism of how officials have handled Covid-19 spread. He has met the media on his own terms, in venues where he filibusters over hard questions. The President’s Office, meanwhile, has cultivated credulous foreign journo brownnosers and used them as conduits for inaccurate, self-serving success stories on mitigating the spread of the disease.

The Covid-19 situation is not improving in Ukraine and is unlikely to improve anytime in the near future.

Meanwhile, parliament on September 30 cancelled scheduled…