Against the background of the war: President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zlansky And his wife Olana today (Sunday) gave their first couple interview to local television since the Russian invasion of the country on February 24, 2022. In the interview, the two addressed the difficulty of running a country in parallel with family life. “No one will take my husband from me – not even the war,” the president’s wife declared.
Ukraine’s first lady shared that she was not surprised that her husband inspired the world with his steadfast leadership and tremendous opposition to Russia. “I can not say that he has changed since the beginning of the invasion, he was brave before and so he remained,” she stressed. President Zlansky also addressed the matter, declaring that “we have not started this war, but we will be the ones to end it.”
Olena later repeated the morning of the invasion: “I remember waking up in the morning to a strange sound coming from outside. I got out of bed like everyone else would probably do. It was dark outside, almost night, and I saw Shuldimir was no longer by my side in bed. I went to the next room and saw him getting organized. He was already wearing his suit, but had not yet tied the tie. ”
“I asked him ‘what’s going on outside?’, And he replied, ‘it started,'” she shared. According to her, it is difficult to describe the feelings I felt at that moment – the anxiety and numbness of the senses that I had after he told me this sentence and left. From that moment on, we did not see each other for a very long time. ”