The claim by "RaggedTrouseredPhilanthropist" on Bluesky contains 3 main parts. That Zelinsky is seeking long-range missiles from TACO, an acronym for Donald Trump (Trump Always Chickens Out), Zelinsky's mental health is on the decline, and Russia's main motivation in the war is to denazify Ukraine.
Reputable news sources, such as the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93dqew8l3xo#, have well covered Zelinsky's visits to the White House seeking long-range missiles, but the claim that Zelinsky's mental health is on the decline is mostly conjecture and has no substantial evidence to back it.
I found one article related to Zelinsky's mental decline on an Uzbekistani site, Zamin. uz https://zamin.uz/en/world/152970-zelensky-hits-a-wall-on-the-brink-of-mental-collapse-and-losing-international-support.html. It cited a quote from a French psychologist, Charles Roisman, whom I could not find any records of existing.
The site is from Uzbekistan, a country that has remained neutral throughout the entire Russian-Ukrainian conflict. This draws suspicion about possible bias, on top of the lack of sources provided.
With all this said, it is widely known that war can lead to physical and emotional toll on presidents. In 2022, a photo resurfaced of Zelinsky, clearly distraught, while touring the city of Bucha, where the bodies of civilians lay in the street, reported by NPR and other well-known news outlets.https://www.npr.org/2022/04/13/1092324328/images-of-zelenskyy-show-the-physical-toll-that-trauma-and-stress-can-have-on-th
While rumors around Zelinsky's mental health deteriorating during the Ukrainian-Russian War might have some basis to them, it would be misleading to claim that any recent information has surfaced to prove that his state is causing him to make irrational decisions. This type of claim has often been employed as a form of wartime propaganda to suggest that a country's leadership is compromised and therefore shouldn't be supported by its allies.
Finally, the claim that Russia has only been concerned about de nazyifing Ukraine is also very misleading. An article by FactCheck.org https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/ dives further into this claim and points to several sources that contradict this claim. For example, Melanie Mierzejewski-Voznyak, a writer for the Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right, pointed out that in Ukraine's 30 years of independence, "Radical right parties typically enjoyed just a few wins in single-mandate districts, and no far right candidate for president has ever secured more than 5 percent of the popular vote in an election.” Far-right extremist movements have existed in almost all countries, including Russia. If Russia were only invading for this reason, why choose Ukraine over any other country with a history of this?
The claim that Russia is purely invading Ukraine to "denazify" the country is clearly ignoring much more prevalent motivations for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A peer-reviewed article by the Harvard Law School https://hnmcp.law.harvard.edu/hnmcp/blog/what-does-putin-want-assessing-interests-in-the-invasion-of-ukraine/ explains that Putin has many other motivations that could lead him to have an interest in invading, such as halting the expansion of NATO, protecting its borders, and expanding Russian military influence.
