Zelensky named Financial Times Person of the Year

Nine months after the invasion of Russia, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskycontinues to lead the resistance, but assures that he considers himself a person “more responsible than brave” who does not like to “let people down”.

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This is how the Ukrainian leader describes himself in an interview with the British newspaper “Financial Times” (FT), after this medium took him to its cover this Monday after naming him Personality of the Year.

Zelensky He also confesses that, instead of fighting the Kremlin forces, he would prefer to be with his son “fishing for carp in the Dnipro River”.

Peace may still be some way off, but the FT stresses that “such folksy message” is typical of a leader who still presents himself “as a normal person with humble tastes”, qualities that have earned him the “admiration of Ukrainians.” and his followers abroad.

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It wasn’t always like this. Before the outbreak of the conflict last February, “many” of his compatriots “considered him a joke”, they saw him as an exactor turned into an “amateur” politician with difficulties to “meet the challenges” posed by the country’s presidency, remember the rotary

He was the “man in the street” turned president, a role he already played in the satirical television series that made him famous in Ukraine.

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“He is also the antithesis of Russian President Vladimir Putin, hiding in the Kremlin, whose obsession with rebuilding an empire has cost tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of lives.”regrets the FT.

On the contrary, Zelensky he has come to embody “the courage and resilience” of the Ukrainian people in “their fight against Russian aggression”, reasons for which the Financial Times “has chosen him as Personality of the Year”.

The kyiv leader, this outlet insists, has earned a place in history for “his extraordinary display of leadership and strength.”

Source: Elcomercio

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