he'd promised a lot and, perhaps understandably, was struggling to deliver on it. his once sky—high ratings in the opinion polls were starting to fall. close allies from the election campaign — zelensky called them his "dream team" — turned on him within a year. comedian brought incompetent people, who now run major government institutions. 0r misrun major government institutions. therefore you cannot achieve results, that's it. so the optimism, the hope of change that existed a year ago, that's over? i would say — look, i would say many things are over, for example promises, by the way, another promise of his was fighting with oligarchs, it's over. i think reforms, the window of opportunity has closed. ruslan ryaboshapka was sacked as attorney—general after just seven months — he says for pushing too hard to tackle