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“He has to travel to show as president that he cares about the whole country”: President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to troops near the city of Kharkiv at the end of May.
(Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Reuters)
Serhiy Leshchenko is an adviser to the Ukrainian Presidential Staff. A conversation about Zelensky’s transformation during the war, the future of his country and the reason why Ukrainian refugees should return home now.
Interviewed by
Catherine Kahlweit, Kyiv
Serhiy Leshchenko was a journalist before entering Ukrainian politics as a reformer and MP for ex-President Petro Poroshenko’s party. He is now an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff. In an interview, he tells how the management team in the presidential palace is dealing with Russia’s war of aggression.
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