This is not true. They have power. Zelensky will never make peace with Putin because he knows (as Yarosh told him) that if he did, he would be hanging from a tree on the Khreshchatyk. The power of the far right in Ukraine is outsized because they are so willng - and able - to commit violence, Just look at what they were able to accomplish at Maidan.

I believe you about Yatsenyuk. I think he just did what Victoria Nuland and the CIA told him and then left to go back to making money as soon as he could. But nonetheless he was willing to issue some pretty harsh decrees while he was there.

Thanks for the links - I will check them out.