That's your opinion and your entitled to it but there's a popular picture I've seen repeatedly where Zalensky went to talk to the forces involved in the fighting in the Donbass/Donetsk area to try and see if he could reason with them. It didn't work. I just seen another article on it this morning over on disqus.
https://wwwp-lives.blogspot.com/2022/04/how-ukraines-jewish-president-zelensky.html