Comedian, president, warrior: the transformation of Volodymyr Zelenskiy
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The Guardian
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:08.5 | Today, he once played a fictional president on TV. |
| 0:12.4 | Now, Vladimir Zelensky's video messages are rallying his country to survive. |
| 0:26.5 | Leader of the France is here. |
| 0:28.1 | On Saturday morning, after the ban, |
| 0:30.3 | after we, you know, spent clearly spending a night in the bunker, Zelensky emerged. |
| 0:33.8 | I mean, he looked, he looked tired. |
| 0:36.0 | He looked a little gond, he had bags under his eyes. |
| 0:39.4 | And he just said, |
| 0:42.1 | you just said, you're too, you're too. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm here with this kind of very smile. |
| 0:47.6 | And it was, it's quite moving. |
| 0:52.9 | Of all the images that have emerged so far from Russia's war on Ukraine, |
| 0:57.5 | some of the most prominent are of its president. |
| 1:00.8 | What we see of Vladimir Zelensky is the leader of a nation at war, |
| 1:07.7 | under Russian attack, behaving with resilience, with humor, |
| 1:14.1 | with a sort of endomitable spirit. |
| 1:16.8 | Skilky, we will fight as long as it takes to liberate the country. |
| 1:20.8 | If children are born in shelters, even when the shelling continues, |
| 1:25.0 | then the enemy has no chance in this undoubtedly people's war. |
| 1:32.4 | Day after day, he's emerged into the streets of his battered capital, |
| 1:36.2 | Kiev, in appearances, perfectly crafted to reassure Ukrainians |
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