His reassuring messages have earned him a reservoir of goodwill with most Ukrainians. Read more at straitstimes.com.
KYIV – The history of most wars is written by the victor after the fact. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, has created his own sequencing: a storyline of the war against Russia in real time that is intended to rally his people, and the Western world.
And a hard one it was. Ukraine, he said, overcame the panic of confrontation with a much larger foe and fought back. But there were losses too. Interspersed in his recorded speech was video footage of the carnage wrought by Russian attacks: leveled apartment blocks and a teddy bear spattered with blood from a missile strike at a train station in April that killed several children.
Earlier in the day, missiles, or falling debris following anti-aircraft intercepts in the sky, hit a half dozen sites in the capital. “Zelensky could hardly have done more, or done anything more effective, to get his country’s message across,” journalist James Fallows wrote in a post on Substack, a blogging platform, after the Ukrainian president’s speech to a joint session of Congress.
On the dark streets of Kyiv one recent night, Mr Oleh Moor paused to admire a Christmas tree illuminated by a generator, an adaptation made in the face of“Maybe there is no music and there are no concerts” this holiday season, said Moor, a cook on his way home from work who had joined a small crowd around the tree. “But we continue living.”
In a video message on the second day of the war, as Russian forces were closing in on Kyiv, he stood in front of the presidential office flanked by his advisers. “We are here,” he said. “We are in Kyiv. We are protecting Ukraine.”
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