One week in the life of Volodymyr Zelensky
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The Economist
4.4 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2025
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
After a turbulent seven days, how will President Volodymyr Zelensky tackle the domestic and international challenges ahead? Our correspondent attends “Ode to Resilience”, a concert of defiance in Ukraine (9:55). And how “The Economist” reported on the Allies’ advance across Europe in the second world war: a sample from our interactive archive (18:22).
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| 0:00.0 | The Economist. |
| 0:10.3 | Hello and welcome to the intelligence from The Economist. |
| 0:13.8 | I'm your host, Rosie Bloor. |
| 0:16.0 | Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world. |
| 0:25.4 | Thank you. we provide a fresh perspective on the event shaping your world. Defiance has many faces. One of them will be on show tonight in Odessa, Ukraine, |
| 0:31.0 | when an orchestra will perform a show, entitled Ode to Resistance. |
| 0:37.5 | And then we step back in time to March 1945 |
| 0:41.1 | to see how the economist was reporting on the last year of the Second World War. |
| 0:46.3 | The Allies were finally on the offensive in Europe |
| 0:48.6 | and things were starting to look a little more optimistic. |
| 0:58.0 | Thank you. to look a little more optimistic. But first... |
| 1:07.0 | Being a president of any country comes with challenges. |
| 1:16.3 | But one leader has had a particularly tough week. |
| 1:20.0 | Last Friday at the White House, Ukraine's Volodymy Zelenskyy received a verbal battering. |
| 1:25.5 | You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed your salary to be in a very bad position and he happens to be right about it. |
| 1:32.3 | On Tuesday, Donald Trump cut off his military support and intelligence aid. |
| 1:37.3 | The US is pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine. |
| 1:40.3 | The Trump administration had already announced... |
| 1:42.3 | And though many European leaders are rallying around him... |
| 1:45.1 | We have to put Ukraine in a position to protect itself |
| 1:49.0 | and to push for lasting and just peace. |
| 1:53.6 | To do so in practical terms will require a huge increase in their defense spending. |
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