Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Twisting in the whirlwind
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Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Twisting in the whirlwind

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“Our two nations are allies in this battle,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his address to the U.S. Congress in December 2022. The then Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, later recalled a conversation he had with Mr. Putin about Mr. Zelenskyy’s fate. When he met Mr. Putin in Moscow in March 2022, Mr. Bennett asked him if he intended to kill Mr. Zelenskyy, to which the Russian leader said ‘No’. Immediately after the three-hour meeting with Mr. Putin, Mr. Bennett called the Ukrainian leader and said: “I’ve just come out of a meeting — is not going to kill you.” Mr. Zelenskyy asked Mr. Bennett, ‘Are you sure?’ He said, “100%.” Two hours after their conversation, Mr. Zelenskyy took a selfie in his office and posted it with the caption “I’m not afraid,” Mr. Bennett recalled in a YouTube interview, published after he left the Prime Minister’s office. Fall from grace The war turned Mr. Zelenskyy into a hero of sorts in the West: the man who stood up to “the evil dictator of Russia”.

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