His bodyguards were urging him to wait. The Russians had destroyed the city’s infrastructure, leaving it with no water, power, or heat. Its outskirts were littered with mines. Government buildings were rigged with trip wires. On the highway to Kherson, an explosion had destroyed a bridge, rendering it impassable. As they fled, the Russians were also suspected of leaving behind agents and saboteurs who could try to ambush the presidential convoy, to assassinate Zelensky or take him hostage.
Our rendezvous point for the trip was outside a firehouse, in a part of central Kyiv that was without electricity when the photographer and I arrived the following evening. Russian missiles have damaged or destroyed much of Ukraine’s power grid since the start of October, a concerted effort to make the winter as painful as possible for the civilian population. People out walking their dogs used their phones to light the sidewalks.
For most of his life, he felt nostalgia for the culture and history Ukraine shared with Russia. “There were these amazing Soviet comedies,” Zelensky told me. Among his heroes growing up were filmmakers like Leonid Gaidai, whose works were heavily censored but still charming and often hilarious; one depicted Ivan the Terrible swapping lives with a superintendent at a Soviet apartment building. “These are the classics of my generation, but I’m incapable of watching them now,” the President says.
The first explosion sounded a few minutes later. Everyone froze, looking up at the sky for a shell to come arcing down. Then came another boom, which sounded closer than the first. Someone suggested it was outgoing artillery fire, though this seemed more like an optimistic guess. The Russians had retreated to the left bank of the Dnipro River, about a mile away. The blasts continued to sound, but Zelensky did not seem bothered by them. He declined, as usual, to wear a helmet or bulletproof vest.
There wasn’t much in Zelensky’s biography to predict his willingness to stand and fight. He had never served in the military or shown much interest in its affairs. He had only been President since April 2019. His professional instincts derived from a lifetime as an actor on the stage, a specialist in improv comedy, and a producer in the movie business.A soldier observes the destruction caused by an airstrike in Kharkiv.That experience turned out to have its advantages.
Top row: a wounded soldier at a hospital in the Donbas region in May; inside a bomb shelter beneath a children’s hospital in the first days of the invasion. Bottom row: exhuming mass graves near Izyum in September; Ukrainian soldiers in the Donetsk region in April.The reception was not much grander at the final stop on the agenda, a meeting with the military command in their bomb-proof bunker. It was hidden beneath an old machine works, accessible through a heavy metal door.
This is fkn hilarious 😂 btw. Does ohmar still want Isreal to bĺòw up
Cassidy Hutchinson deserves a mention
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what is Time´s readership these days. I remember when you were somwthing. Read it in the 90s. trusted it. Now, you´re no longer relevant. Rubbish like this is why.
I think he absolutely deserves it, brave, smart and charismatic leader. 👍 but if you look at the list of people nominated by Time you will notice that the worlds bloodiest and the most cruel killers of the century like Stalin and Hitler were also “people of the year” Time
Talk peace
19M followers and how many likes?
A leader would try to negotiate peace, not continue the war by begging everyone to join his American-pushed war. I bet the U.S. would do the same to Mexico should they let Russian bases in their territory. Cuba cough cough.
烏克蘭加油 世界和平人人有責
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Trash
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Congratulations to our CIA puppet and the illusion of democracy
Gotta keep that war machine humming $$$
No other choice I’d say….well merited ZelenskyyUa Ukraine = Unstoppable & Invincible 💙🇺🇦💛
Cokehead of the year, disgusting 🤮
So what you're saying is, I can make my country the most corrupted country in the world, then provoke Putin to drop a few bombs in it, then ask the United States for $45 billion without any auditing, and make Time's 2022 Person of the Year?
The comedian should have agreed to the same terms leaders in Puerta Rico and Panama agreed to because USA would have invaded them if they allowed Russia a thousand miles near their gates. He has wasted thousands of avoidable losses of lives
At first i thought TIME should be given to Queen Elizabeth .However i will not argue with the TIME .This is another good one Congrats The President of Ukraine
He's sacrificing his people and land for a big banc account. Perfect huge marketing show to keep money flowing. Unfortunately people want peace but foreign countries love delivering weapons, blood and war while destroying state budgets and industries alongside for own advantage.
Yep, that’s one hell of a crime spree😒
Liar of the year
citizens worldwide must strictly avoid joining the non sense of battlefield, as armymen. Let the clever leaders fight on their own muscles.
ye the little dictator sure ,you dont have a great reputation on picking people you know ,you picked Adolf and Stalin so .........
Well earned I would say, but I wish these circumstances had never been visited upon Zelensky and Ukraine by the evil & cruel Putin and his equally bloodthirsty army.
Lol
Biggest grifter in worlds history. Zero accounting for the billions he’s bilked out of the USA and all those clowns in WashingtonDC are licking his boots. Pathetic
death to invaders death to dictators slava ukraini
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He’s a martyr . Hero. Father. And icon.
Good president Zelensky to you congratulation to staying tied with your army your soldiers your troops likes friends likes this they 're feeling encouraging congratulation to ukranian army we stand with ukraine
ZelenskyyUa has lead the most substantial & successful military engagement in 50 years fighting a battle for freedom. Displaying a level of leadership that cultivates courage, commitment, compassion and community across Europe. The West must commit resources to ensure success.
What a surprised?
Where does it end tho?
Nonsense! Person of the year🙄
This man is a crook like BernieMadoff Madoff or others ! It’s the same as weapons of mass destruction. irakwar UkraineRussiaWar
He deserved💘❣❣❣💪🏽💪🏽
That's the truth. That's what you need to declare to the world-and to their economy when grew up at I was accusing lies.
correction: Voldemort
WTF
Stupidly is also contagious.
We will never be misleading by propaganda that u report
A nazi fanatic is TIME's Person of the Year. What a joke. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I know he's a comedian. Did he write this joke for you ?
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🙈🙆♂️
I guess a lot of those who tweet negatively about Zelensky would have sold out their country's sovereignty and be dictated by Russia what they can or can't do.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. What? Still orchestrating?
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Stop promoting mediocre 🤮😂
Pushing 'P' and the Agenda LoL
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Courage is contagious. How about corruption?
Person of the year for a war he lost lol
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You know stunt is making even harder to convince the world of the said war, the staged photoshoot is definitely not helping his cause, but to each it's own, what do I know
He's definitely brave. Ultra-Nationalist Yarosh, co-founder of the RightSector and then commander of Ukrainian Volunteer Army, openly threatened him by warning that if he tried to make peace, there would be an “uprising” and he would be “hanging on some tree on Khreshchatyk'
He gambled with Ukrainians,today they don't have a country.
Cocaine addict of the year
A puppet on a sting 🙄
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Success you say.
Ohh please
Planning for the staged war.
Anyone even me can be a wartime leader if I have you the media as my propaganda machinary. I don't need to give you examples of how you have done this through the years starting by Vietnam.
It’s the playing the piano with his wang for me
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Courage is not to destroy your country to please the US against Russia ..
😅joke of the year
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He only deserved the praises if he had talked it out with his neighbor and end the conflict without war. These prizes do not help his people who live in fear
This pure propaganda!
🤣🤣🤣people are dying there he is busy with Photoshoot
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Real courageous man
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Welele...
You are peddling lies 🤥🤥🤥
Success ?
Time's 2022 Clown 🤡 of the Year is Volodymyr 'Joker' Zelensky
The west would rather starve it's people via inflation and the entire globe for this reactionary 😂 Continue though
real comedy 🤣😂
Also relied heavily on billions of U.S. dollars too.
Circus clown
Lol 😆😆🤣🤣🤣🤭🤭😂
Hijo de puta.
Biggest money launderer of all time.
He is fake.
Мужність найнижча і найвища Еталоном перед лицем негараздів У боротьбі за свободу Будь ласка, майте порядність і навчіться правильно писати його ім'я Слава Україні !
Não entendo porque a Ucrânia não vira uma Potência mundial aliás a pobreza era para ser erradicada a fome no mundo se as pessoas podesse. Elas podem acabar ou diminuir isso poderia acontecer confie em Deus.
Qué desastre, glorificando el nazismo.
Absurdity, a person who sacrificed the lives of innocent Ukrainians
History will never forget about him and what he has done so far to protect and to free his country.
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L'Histoire ne vous donnera pas raison ...
This man is a hero - who believes in and works FOR the people. I place him in the same league, albeit much different role, as Jean Dominique was for the Haitian people.
oh man...fail
I dunno, billions upon billions provided by other countries I don't think equates to 'courage', but whatevs.
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War criminal
Azov Nazi?
The 'HOLY SPIRIT' ?
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IR executed majidrezarahnavard. They wont stop killing innocent people.Please label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. Impose travel ban and freeze regime assets. Revoke their visas and the visas of their families living abroad.
And the move to two completely separate realities is finalized.
Yay for the communist of the year
una vergüenza que se lo den a ese nazi
Can you print up 10 million copies and send them to Ukraine so they can burn them for heat?
Money thief
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Zelenski? Helloooooowww
Congratulations President Zelensky. You have shown the world what a real leader looks like.
We should send him $100 billion more as a prize
Con Artist
The loss of freedom in one nation, erodes freedom in all the rest. “If they devour us, the sun in your sky will get dimmer.” Zelenskiy 🇺🇦 PersonOfTheYear
he is just an Americans pupy. You are doing business for the arm companies. Disgusting! Poor people doing wrong things. the world deserves the peace. The war started because you didn't respect the minsk agreements. Work together for the peace.
like England, USA, France... (Irak, siria, Yemen etc ) You are doing business for the arm companies. Disgusting! Poor people doing wrong things. the world deserves the peace. The war started because you didn't respect the minsk agreements. Work together for the peace.
owenlucille1914 Russian men fighting on Ukrainian soil will grind away to piles of shit never to see their country or families again. Good riddance to bad rubbish Cargo200
This must really go down as one of the worst 'Person of the Year' in a century. Useless person.
ASOW !!
Yep, and adolfhitler was a person of the year too.
Just as I predicted
Correct me if I am wrong. I do NOT see soldiers-vanguards..militia on the cover page.
War criminal of the year.
denisebatters Oh ffs 🙄
Money makes it so much easier to be on the front line, especially when billions are pouring in on monthly basis.
I love the picture in the train. That's my president 💙💛
Hahahahaha...for what? Laundering more money than any person in the history of the world? Clown rag...🤡 🤣
ShameonYou USA 🤦🏽♀️
Hes a joke, a pedophile, baby killer, rapist. Woke is BS.
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