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Today, Explained

Volodymyr vs. Vladimir

Today, Explained

Vox

Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from a middling peacetime president to a heroic wartime president. Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin explains from an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff also explains, but from her home in Los Angeles. This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:40.0

It's today explained.

0:41.0

I'm Sean Ramos from the entire world is fixated on Ukraine, but not just on Ukraine.

0:46.6

People are fixated AF on the country's comedian actor turned president,

0:53.0

Vladimir Zelensky.

0:54.8

Zelensky's kind of made himself the main character of this story.

0:59.2

And today on the show, we're going to figure out how exactly he did that.

1:03.4

And we're going to get to hear from someone in the middle of the war

1:06.4

and someone very far away from it in Los Angeles.

1:09.3

Let's start in Ukraine.

1:11.2

I left the key of a couple of days ago, and I will probably not mention the exact location,

1:17.6

but I'm in Ukraine and planning on returning to Kiev.

1:21.5

This is Alexey Serokin.

1:23.6

He's the political editor at the Kiev Independent.

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