The president’s admission that he willingly failed to signal a looming Russian attack has “punctured the bubble” of his image
Many in Ukraine have been infuriated by an admission, which President Vladimir Zelensky made this week in an interview with the Washington Post, the newspaper said on Thursday. The revelation earlier this week that he sacrificed lives for the sake of running the economy was his first serious communication blunder during the conflict with Russia, the paper said.
Before Zelensky seemed “beyond reproach, a national hero” to Ukrainians, the publication said, but the acknowledgement has “punctured the bubble, triggering a cascade of public criticism unprecedented since the war began.”
During the interview with the American newspaper, Zelensky admitted that prior to the outbreak of hostilities with Russia, he was downplaying US warnings about a looming attack out of fear Ukrainians would flee the country en masse.
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