Zelensky's desperate. He knows he's going to lose. For whatever reason, he's not allowed to negotiate a peace. I don't know what Kholomoisky and the Biden crime family have on him, but someone has something big enough to compel Zelensky to keep throwing his countrymen's lives away. I do believe Zelensky is a Ukrainian nationalist and a patriot to his vision for his country. I do not think he would throw lives away uselessly unless he was forced. I think he sold his soul in hopes of getting the Donbas and Crimea back, and the genie couldn't grant his wish.

He realizes Biden is senile and his handlers have no real solutions, so he's trying like hell to come up with options. And right now, his option is to fight a guerrilla war using terrorist tactics, and hope to leverage that. He has in fact been following Hamas' playbook pretty much since the start. He armed civilians, including women and children with automatic weapons and told them to fight (using his population as human shields). His troops routinely occupy and fight out of schools, apartment buildings, and hospitals. They regularly attack civilian targets both in the Donbas and in Russian border towns.

Zelensky's just taking his cues from his benefactors. He would not have suggested blowing up a civilian pipeline to a NATO country if Biden hadn't blown up Nordstream and screwed Germany over.