"Symbol": British journalist told how Zelensky changed during the war with the Russian Federation (photo)
The key points that the journalist drew attention to seemed to seem to be Schuster. For example, Zelensky knew that Ukraine was lacking in to give the Russians repeling. "With his actions before the invasion of Zelensky, he took at least part of the fault for the unstable state of defense of the country. He spent several weeks, reducing the risk of a full -scale invasion, and abandoned the advice of a military command to strengthen the border," Shuster writes.
At the same time, as the journalist points out, such confidence has always been one of the strengths of Zelensky. He was annoyed when he was offered to leave - "as if written off from the bills. " At this time, the heads of European states gathered for a summit, where they decided what to do. Shuster writes that the leaders of Germany, Austria and Hungary did not want to break relations with the Russian Federation, in particular with its banking system.
And then Zelensky intervened, who instead of asking for salvation, demanded that European high-ranking officials answer the question: "Will Ukraine ever be joined by the EU?" The war changed the President - he became rigid, and resembled a "walking corpse" externally because his face became yellow because of lack of sunlight and fresh air. "Do not show mercy.
Use all available weapons to destroy all Russian there," Zelensky gave such orders when the Russian Federation tried to capture Gostomel and later Kiev. Shuster believes that then Zelensky thought that Putin did not understand what was happening. According to the journalist, the Ukrainian leader believed that if he could take a Russian dictator with him in the war zone and show him the body, the war could stop.
However, after Bucha and Irpen, and especially the station in Kramatorsk, where he was horrified by just puddles of blood on the asphalt, he said he was feeling hatred of Russian troops. Sometimes such commendation of his qualities as courage, Shuster writes, gave him a greater danger than necessary. "But the President's ability to overcome his fear is largely related to how Ukraine has experienced this threat to its existence," the journalist sums up. Shuster tells how Zelensky inspired himself.
"You are a symbol. You must act as the head of state should act," the journalist of the word of the Ukrainian leader cites. He understood everything, and even in one of the days of the battle for the capital said that, perhaps, you see me alive. These were words addressed to EU leaders who at that time decided how Putin could be punished. However, the Ukrainian president did not believe that the Allies would save Ukraine.
"His speeches, which lasted only about five minutes, had a greater impact than months, if not years, debates about the Russian threat," Shuster said. The journalist notes that next month it will turn two years from the date of Putin's invasion. The war took hundreds of thousands of lives and far from completion. And the war changed the Ukrainian President - "stubborn, confident, vindictive, apolitical, brave to recklessness and ruthless about those who stood in his way.
" Shuster formulated what Zelensky does - he directs the anger and stability of his people and purposefully expresses them in the world. As Shuster noted, it was these changes that the words that Zelensky said during the election campaign were reminded. "The worst thing is to lose the people around you . . . Those who support you tell you when you are mistaken," the president summed up.