The Life of Volodymyr Zelensky. Part 2: The President Called “Dishearteningly Mediocre” Three Days Before the War | War Ukraine and Russia

The hope of Ukraine. The hero of the West. The last dam against the brutal dictatorship. That is what Volodymyr Zelensky (44) has become in a few weeks. Before the war broke out, his popularity was in free fall. In Ukraine itself, he was called “discouragingly mediocre” and elsewhere in the world he became best known for his servility towards Donald Trump. But the fact that he is actually a boulder head now comes in handy for his country. “The white flag has never been my flag.”