is he any more positively oriented toward russia than Zelenskyy?
Nobody knows exactly. As a military man, Zaluzhniy has made very few statements outside of his own domain. This doesn't mean that he's dull, or otherwise simple, just - again - that he's a military person.
We can guess at his views from the company he keeps, however. He's friends with many leaders of nationalist battalions and brigades. He had a portrait of Stepan Bandera in his office, when he was Commander in Chief. Unlike the current CiC, Syrsky, Zaluzhniy is an ethnic Ukrainian - and Ukrainian was apparently his mother tongue. He never studied in Moscow, but instead at the Odessa Academy.
From all this, we can guess that Zaluzhniy is probably worse than Zelensky from the point of view of what happens inside his head. This doesn't mean he will necessarily be a bad president for Russia.
I stand by my prediction that russia wants elections in Ukraine mainly so it can target polling stations
... and what exactly is the point of bombing people that are queuing to vote? That would be disastrous for Russia.
If we are the ones, together with Trump, that insist Zelensky has to organize a vote - why on Earth would we then try to sabotage this vote's legitimacy? What's the logic here?
There's enough problems with this vote, that people can point out the problems with it without Russia's help. First of all, 5-7M Ukrainians live in Russian occupied territory. We're probably not going to help them cast their ballots. People can blame us for this easily, and consequently pronounce all of the elections as a sham. So then - this is not something that we want. We want the elections to happen, and give us a new person to talk to, because this one hates us too much to see clearly.
russians are liars and thieves with no honor....
American Pot, meet Russian Kettle.
