As the Kremlin's position is simply that anyone not directly installed by Putin is illegitimate, it is in a sense true that Zelensky is an illegitimate president. After all, the only people who voted for him were Ukrainians, and they don't count, do they? Russia has always made it plain that anything short of total domination of Ukraine is unacceptable, and the West is too full of too many stupid bloated morons to realize that any "negotiated settlement" will merely be a pause in which Russia re-arms, ramps up even further its information warfare, and then proceeds to complete its invasion and turn Ukraine into one vast slaughterhouse. But fat complacent TikTok-obsessed Westerners won't even notice because they'll all be babbling mindlessly about whatever the latest streaming video trend happens to be, while they cram McSlop down their throats in vast quantities. Only morons think the invasion of Ukraine should pause by rewarding Russia for its horrific war crimes. Sadly, the world is full of morons.