A guy who...
- was once appointed as a successor in the presidential office by an agreement of oligarchic elites
- never had any political career before taking power
- never participated in any real competitive elections
- has spent a quarter century in power and intends to keep it until his very death
- is about to enter his 5th presidential term next year
- had his alcoholic buddy pretending to be a president for 4 years only to give the office back as ordered
- has literally all of his political rivals either murdered, expelled abroad, or jailed for up to 25 years
- has an absolute state monopoly and propaganda machine serving his interests, with free media completely erased as a notion
- puts people in jail for up to 15 years for even saying the word "war" in the middle of the biggest European war since WWII that he unleashed
- labeled even his tiniest critics as "foreign agents" harassed by political police and brutally quelled the smallest protests
- shamelessly raped his country's constitution and simply lifted restrictions regarding the number of terms he can serve as the 'president'
... and this guy prohibits his propaganda mouthpieces from calling Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky a president and orders them to call him "the chief of the Kiev regime."
You know, Zelensky, who won the presidency in a brutally competitive campaign in a country that had had 4 presidents since Vladimir Putin took power in Russia last century.
You just can't make this up.