Zelenskyy's bodyguard becomes 'sex symbol' after keeping him safe from Putin

DAILY STAR

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has become an international icon of defiance in the year since Vladimir Putin ordered his army into Ukraine.

But it’s the man standing silently behind him in almost every photo that has become an unlikely sex symbol with a huge social media following – despite posting nothing himself.

Maksym Donets, the head of President Zelenskyy’s security team, goes everywhere the Ukrainian leader does – usually clad in the same nondescript army fatigues as his boss but always heavily-armed.

Donets is so frequently seen in the background of official photos of Zelenskyy that some conspiracy theorists have convinced themselves that he’s some sort of body double for the president rather than his bodyguard.