Zelensky and his team will continue ruling directly through wartime powers that bypass parliament and, crucially, suspended all non-state broadcast media.

How anybody can look at this regime and continue to insist that it's a democracy is beyond me. I doubt that this would qualify as a democracy even under neoliberalism's own backward criteria.

I remember that after I suggested that Ukraine is a military dictatorship, some dullards on meanwhileonthegrad made fun of me for mentioning how there are so many photos of Zelensky in uniform next to other military officials, even though I was very obviously not arguing that that proved my point, but it is pretty typical for anticommunists to ignore everything of importance by focusing on some trivia. (The superabundance of militaristic Zelensky photos is simply bad propaganda. It isn't a smoking gun for a military dictatorship. I don't care for them much.)