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Death indeed stalks the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky. Amid the growing threat to his life in the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine, the embattled President has said he would want to be remembered as a man who loved life to the fullest.
He disclosed this in an exclusive interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper, which was aired on the programme, State of The Union on Sunday 17 April 2022.
Asked what he would want to be remembered for, Zelensky said: “A human being that loved life to the fullest,” he responded. “And loved his family and loved his motherland. Definitely not a hero. I want people to take me as I am. A regular human.”
The comic actor turned Ukrainian President, whose popularity has upped across the globe as a result of the uncommon courage and bravery he has shown since the war started seven weeks ago, also said he knew he was Putin’s number one target and his wife and children number two.
Since the war started, Russian President, Vladimir Putin has branded him a Nazi and terror. He had also branded the war against Russian as a military aggression. Zelensky, on his part, has termed the Russian offensive a genocide, painting a grim picture of the situation in Ukraine.
I have the same opinion as President Biden,” Zelensky said in the interview. “Look at what happened in Bucha. It’s clear that is not even a war, it’s a genocide. They just killed people. Not soldiers, people. They just shot people in the streets. People were riding bicycles, taking the bus or just walking down the street. There were corpses lining the streets.”
Kyiv, the capital city of Ukraine, where Zelensky still resides and makes his regular broadcast, has been under constant bombardment since the war started and about four million people have fled the city to neighbouring Poland.
Zelensky, who was emotional talking about the death that the war has caused in Ukraine, said: “It is a great pain for me” to see the lives lost…
