Zelenska, in an interview published Friday in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, also said she had not seen her husband, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy, since Russia invaded Ukraine. When Zelenska woke up on February 24, the day the war began, her husband was already awake and dressed. He simply told her: “It started” and left for the office in Kyiv, he remembers. “Since February 24, I have been watching my husband like you – on TV and in videotapes of his speeches,” she said. Zelenska said the couple’s two children were with her, but did not reveal their whereabouts. He accused Russia of committing genocide against the Ukrainian people and expressed its support for the more than 11 million Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes. Poland has accepted most of them, with 3 million going to Poland since the start of the war and 1.6 million Ukrainians registering for national identification numbers, indicating that they intend to stay for some time. Most are women and children. “I wish I could hug each of them. “It is easy to imagine the difficult path they took, escaping from underground or warehouses in Mariupol, from bombings in Kharkiv, from the occupied part of Kiev, even from Lviv or Odessa, which also came under fire from Russian missiles,” he said. . . She also thanked the Poles for their efforts to help the Ukrainians, a message her husband delivered to Polish media on Friday. The newspaper, making it clear that it interviewed Zelenska remotely, asked her if the war had changed her husband, the former comedian who has rallied and united Ukraine as a wartime leader, earning worldwide respect. “The war did not change him,” she replied. “He was always a man you could count on. A man who will never fail. Who will endure until the end. “It’s just that now everyone has seen what may not have been clear to everyone before.” He was also asked if he had a message for the mothers, wives and sisters of Russian soldiers. Zelenska said she did not do it, because “nothing passes them by”. “During these two months, as their sons are being killed in Ukraine as criminals and occupiers, they have had time to determine their position. “If there is no such statement – if the coffins do not convince them that something is wrong here – then I have nothing to say to them,” he said.
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Zelenska, in an interview published Friday in the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita, also said she had not seen her husband, 44-year-old Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy, since Russia invaded Ukraine. When Zelenska woke up on February 24, the day the war began, her husband was already awake and dressed. He simply told her: “It started” and left for the office in Kyiv, he remembers. “Since February 24, I have been watching my husband like you – on TV and in videotapes of his speeches,” she said. Zelenska said the couple’s two children were with her, but did not reveal their whereabouts. He accused Russia of committing genocide against the Ukrainian people and expressed its support for the more than 11 million Ukrainians who have been forced to flee their homes. Poland has accepted most of them, with 3 million going to Poland since the start of the war and 1.6 million Ukrainians registering for national identification numbers, indicating that they intend to stay for some time. Most are women and children. “I wish I could hug each of them. “It is easy to imagine the difficult path they took, escaping from underground or warehouses in Mariupol, from bombings in Kharkiv, from the occupied part of Kiev, even from Lviv or Odessa, which also came under fire from Russian missiles,” he said. . . She also thanked the Poles for their efforts to help the Ukrainians, a message her husband delivered to Polish media on Friday. The newspaper, making it clear that it interviewed Zelenska remotely, asked her if the war had changed her husband, the former comedian who has rallied and united Ukraine as a wartime leader, earning worldwide respect. “The war did not change him,” she replied. “He was always a man you could count on. A man who will never fail. Who will endure until the end. “It’s just that now everyone has seen what may not have been clear to everyone before.” He was also asked if he had a message for the mothers, wives and sisters of Russian soldiers. Zelenska said she did not do it, because “nothing passes them by”. “During these two months, as their sons are being killed in Ukraine as criminals and occupiers, they have had time to determine their position. “If there is no such statement – if the coffins do not convince them that something is wrong here – then I have nothing to say to them,” he said.
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