The president of Ukraine, Volodomir Zelensky, has been such a powerful communicator during

the most recent invasion of his country, that it can be hard to pick just one appearance,

one video clip that demonstrates his skill.

But I asked the Atlantic's Franklin Four to try.

I mean, I think that the, I'm going to go for the cliche, which is the one in the streets,

with his crew, where they defy Russian propaganda and say, we're here.

We're still here.

This clip was released just a couple of days into the war.

Russia was pushing a rumor that Zelensky had fled.

The selfie style video shot on a dark Ukrainian street, with the president in a green t-shirt

and stubble, was Zelensky's answer to the rumors.

There was a repetitiveness to it.

A poetry?

Yeah.

It was both rousing and strangely calming, to have that effect of reassurance and also to have

this underlying, we're still here, which is kind of in a way a rousing battle cry, I think,

is very sophisticated.

You know the video that stood out to me was from last week,

when Zelensky was addressing European Parliament.

We're fighting just for our land and for our freedom.

And it wasn't so much what Zelensky was saying.

It was the fact that the translator choked up.

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