Learning about his campaign and his presidency before the invasion, it's pretty obvious he really wanted to try and improve the country's situation but he truly believed that the West was the bastion of peace
Zelensky initially tried to calm down the situation in the Donbass and get the Nazi paramilitaries under his control and stop them from committing acts of violence against the people of the Donbass. He eventually just gave up because the 2014 coup gave them too much power for the state to control. He ended up being the same politician that he vowed to not be.
I thought for a sec the video might be fake because it's of awful quality and not covered by any western news sites (that I could find) and just too on the nose. But it's from Graham's own twitter so https://x.com/LindseyGrahamSC/status/1832160396846776710