From actors to presidents, the most familiar ones are US President Ronald Reagan and Ukrainian President Zelenskiy.
The war, the Russo-Ukrainian War, made Volodymyr Zelenskyj the greatest hero of the Ukrainian people.
In December 2021, President Zelenskiy inspected the troops in body armor
Until May 20, 2019, Volodymyr Zelenskyj was a comedian. After becoming president of Ukraine, many people just regarded him as an anecdote. Compared to Russian President Vladimir Putin, he seems worthless.
Now, however, Ukrainians see: Our president is here, with us.
In early January 2022, the United States issued an emergency warning to Ukraine that Russia might invade ukraine. Zelenskiy was still skiing in the Carpathians and posted a selfie on Instagram. Many people shook his head at him, thinking that he was not up to the job of president.
On February 24, Russia's war against Ukraine officially began. To almost everyone's surprise, Zelenskiy chose to stay in Kiev after arranging for his family to take refuge, leading the Ukrainian people to defend their homeland on the front lines.
On the fifth day of the war, Kiev and other major cities remained uncontrolled by the Russians. Zelenskiy is now a hero of an entire country and even a world.
Comedian born into a Jewish family
Zelens was born on January 25, 1978, to a Jewish family in Kryvyi Rih, an industrial city in southern Ukraine that was still part of the Soviet Union at the time.
Zelenskiy's father, born in 1947, was a professor of cybernetics. Born in 1950, his mother worked as an engineer. Zelenskiy himself graduated from law school, but did not become a lawyer.
In 1997, he founded the song and dance group "Kwartal 95" ("Apartment 95") and toured Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union.
In 2016, Zelenskiy starred in a comedy poster
In 2003, Zelenskiy married, had two children, and lived in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine.
In 2015, Zelenskiy starred in the comedy Servant of the People. It tells the story of a history teacher who became president by chance.
The president he plays in the show seems clumsy, but hardworking and incorruptible, and has received super high ratings in Ukraine. Zelenskiy thus became a celebrity.
Zelenskiy's family photo
In 2019, he announced his participation in the elections — in an interview, he said he wanted to make Ukraine more democratic, wanted to work hard to fight corruption, and so on. Although he himself had no political experience and the electoral platform did not have many highlights, the Ukrainian people at the time were very dissatisfied with the president, chocolate billionaire Petro Poroshenko. In the end, Zelenskiy won the election with a super high approval rating of 70%.
Ukrainians hope that this new man can bring a new beginning to the government. However, after Zelenskiy was elected, he still had ambiguous relations with some oligarchs. Nor was the problem of eastern Ukraine ill-advised, and the promised peace did not come.
In 2019, Zelenskiy and his wife attended the United Nations summit in New York
Talks with Russia, France and Ukraine in 2019
In the final weeks before the war began, Zelenskiy remained incompetent. He dismissed all U.S. warnings about the deployment of Russian troops as "hype" so as not to cause panic at home.
It was only after putin's invasion began that the Ukrainian government ordered a full mobilization of all healthy Ukrainians aged 18 to 60 to prepare for resistance.
And it all seems too late, and Ukraine simply does not have enough weapons.
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If Russian troops occupy Kiev, Putin will arrest him and prop up a new regime. However, he smiled and rejected the withdrawal offer made by the United States: "I need ammunition, don't hitchhike!" ”
At the beginning of this moment, he showed a different Zelenskiy.
After the start of the war, Zelens based on February 25 in Kiev
Zelenskiy's video of himself on the streets of Kiev was played in many international media, in which he and other senior officials said: "We are in Kiev, defending Ukraine. ”
In contrast to Putin, who declared war in the Kremlin, Zelenskiy showed calmness, bravery, and concern for the people.
For several days, Zelenskiy has inspired the people through the media.
He thanked the soldiers who fought, promising them a "decent" salary equivalent to 3,000 euros a month, four times the previous salary.
His reference to the "anti-war coalition" shows that Ukraine is no longer alone in its quest for peace.
He told the Ukrainian people that they had the support of many countries and were receiving arms, medicines, food, fuel and funds. At the same time, Russian banks have been excluded from the swift international payment system, and EU countries have closed Aeroflot's airspace.
Speaking in Russian to the people of Belarus and Russia, he called on the people there to protest against Putin's war. Thousands of Russians have been arrested for protesting the war that Putin has waged in neighboring Ukraine.
He said, I'm not a Nazi. My grandfather fought throughout the war in the infantry of the Soviet army and died as a colonel in independent Ukraine. Zelenskiy was Jewish, and three of his grandfather's brothers were killed in the Holocaust.
He is the only Jewish president in Europe.
Ukrainians are different from Russians, he said, but that is by no means a reason to "become enemies."
The "heroic president" in the hearts of Ukrainians
Ukraine's approval rating for Zelenskiy is now more than 90 percent, a record number.
Zelenskiy plays with his dog Nora
Even sharp critics like Igor Mosichuk, former deputy commander of the right-wing extremist Azov regiment, have openly supported Zelenskiy. Because he "showed steely freedom and character."
Previously, Mikhail Tekahe, an investigative journalist who often criticized his ties to oligarchs, wrote: "As this war passes day by day, Zelenskiy is becoming more and more powerful."
February 27, the night before negotiations with Russia. Zelenskiy, 44, wearing an olive-green T-shirt, said in a firm voice: "I don't want Belarusian missiles, planes, helicopters to attack Ukraine." I had a long telephone conversation with the president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, and we haven't talked for two years. ”
Zelenskiy said he didn't believe the talks would work out, but he wanted to give it a try.
At present, Zelenskiy and his 250,000 Ukrainian soldiers are not optimistic in the face of a tough Putin.
However, whatever the outcome of this war, Zelenskiy's era of being called a "comedy", an "actor" president, is over. (Source: DeLWer) Graphic infringement contact deleted