STORY – By refusing to leave his country in the face of the advance of Russian tanks, the Ukrainian president, who has turned into a warlord, has become an example for his fellow citizens and for the West.
From our special correspondent in kyiv.
«In the face of great perils, salvation is only in greatness. said de Gaulle. Thanks to Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine could well find its own. Circumstances make men, they say. He has always remained true to himself, including in the most serious or solemn moments. Before the war, Volodymyr Zelensky liked to receive his visitors in a small room of his presidential palace in kyiv.
The president felt more comfortable in a room «simple», confides one of his collaborators. When he had already been invested, in 2019, he did not want his photo to sit in the presidential offices. But, since the war, he has been forced to move to a larger and more prestigious room, all adorned with gilding, equipped with modern communication systems and crossed by a table even larger than the one at the end of which Vladimir Putin had received Emmanuel Macron in the Kremlin, a few days before…
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