Earlier this month, Time reporter Simon Shuster spent two weeks in the bunker in the Ukrainian capital from which Zelensky operates. “Russian troops arrived just minutes away from Zelensky at the start of the war,” Shuster was told by a senior presidential adviser there. Russian gunfire could have been heard as far as the president’s office.
‘No elevator, but ammunition’
During those early days, Zelensky was also offered the opportunity to leave Ukraine with the help of the Americans or British and to flee to Poland, for example, to which the president said he “needs not a lift, but ammunition”.
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In the candid interview with Time says Zelensky how he lies awake at night from the war in his country. He also tells how recent developments have made him age quickly. “I’ve gained all this new wisdom about killing and torture that I never asked for,” he says.
Attention slack
He is concerned about how the war will be experienced outside Ukraine as the battle continues. The Ukrainian president tells the Time reporter how he feels the world’s attention waning. “People see this war on Instagram, on social media. When they’re tired of it, they scroll on,” says Zelenski, who wants the free world to experience the war “as if it were about its survival.”
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