Zelenskys rise to the presedency seems to be completly astroturfed by his puppet master Ihor Kolomoyskyi. From wikipedia:
Kolomoysky is a oligarch who holds citizenship in Ukraine, Israel and Cyprus. He own banks, airlines and media companies. He also funded the Azov battalion who are some sort of anti-russian neo-nazi fighting force currently fighting in the east of Ukraine. This is very strange considering his own background, but I guess it's a win/win for him since his enemies are going to kill each other.
www.vox.com
Kolomoyski owns 70% of the 1+1 Media Group whose TV channel 1+1 aired "Servant of the People", the comedy series in which Volodymyr Zelensky played the role of president of Ukraine. On 31 March 2019 Zelensky won the most votes in the first round of Ukraine's real presidential elections,[39] resulting in Yulia Tymoshenko being eliminated from the next round.[40] On 21 April 2019 Zelensky went on to win the presidential election.
Kolomoysky is a oligarch who holds citizenship in Ukraine, Israel and Cyprus. He own banks, airlines and media companies. He also funded the Azov battalion who are some sort of anti-russian neo-nazi fighting force currently fighting in the east of Ukraine. This is very strange considering his own background, but I guess it's a win/win for him since his enemies are going to kill each other.

We just got a glimpse of how oligarch-funded militias could bring chaos to Ukraine
Ukraine relies on pro-Kiev militias to fight Putin. But a recent raid on an oil company suggests these private armies could turn against the state to pursue their own interests.
