Volodymyr Zelensky
The Commander
Decision under pressure, front of house, leads visibly from the front.
Volodymyr Zelensky reads as The Commander because in February 2022 he converted personal courage into collective mobilisation with extraordinary speed. By refusing evacuation and filming himself on the streets of Kyiv, he gave Ukrainian citizens and Western governments a focal point precise enough to organise around.
“The people who attack us, they speak Russian. They attack people who were only recently told that this was actually in defense of Russian-speaking people. And this is why I respect neither the leader or director of today's Russia, nor the people. I just, that's it. And I don't think that you can just pretend that nothing's happening.”
“Businesses to return. A lot of support will come, I think, from USA, business investment, not as direct aid to us, just to the private sector and resources, and I mention this to President Trump and to some European leaders who are our key strategic partners that will be happy, especially with the Americans, will be happy to sign these co…”
“Who is the most influential Ukrainian oligarch since independence? And no one could do anything about him. The United States of America wanted to have Kolomoysky and they went to great lengths because of money laundering, etc. There are criminal cases in the United States, I think in Delaware, something like that.”
“Even I don't know really. I don't know. I don't know. It is a very difficult question. It depends on how this war will finish. It depends on what people will want. Mostly it depends. People. First of all, and of course my family.”
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