Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Razumkov answered a question about support for Zelensky in 2019 
Former Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada Dmitry Razumkov – for supporting Vladimir Zelensky in the presidential elections in 2019. He stated this in an interview with the Ukraine 24 TV channel, the recording is available on YouTube.
The presenter showed Razumkov a fragment of an interview with the doctor Yevgeny Komarovsky to journalist Dmitry Gordon, in which the doctor called the decision to support Zelensky in the elections a bad mistake. According to him, 73 percent of voters “got screwed”. “We are suckers. Real. I feel guilty, “he said.
When asked if he also considers himself a sucker, Razumkov replied:” To paraphrase the classic, I'm 38 – I'm not a sucker. ” In October 2019, Zelensky arrived in Donbass, where the disengagement of troops was to take place. He had an argument with the military, during which he said: “I am the president of this country, I am 42 years old. I'm not a sucker. I came and said – take away your weapons. ”
Dmitry Razumkov was dismissed from the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada on October 7, 2021. A few months earlier, the media reported that the head of parliament had deteriorated relations with Zelensky: the president saw a competitor in the speaker, and Razumkov was waiting for the moment to leave for the opposition.