Zelensky was able to adapt, he proved to be trained not to lose his composure under pressure, the publication notes.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the “spirit of Ukraine” became the “person of the year” according to the version of the British magazine Time.
IN publications magazine says that Zelensky did not leave Kyiv in the first critical weeks of the invasion. During the whole period of fighting, the Russian occupiers did not achieve their goals.
The journalists also mention the occupation of Kherson – the only regional center that the Russian Federation was able to capture after February 24, and the force with which the locals resisted the Russians.
Zelensky’s success as a “military” leader, the publication notes, is based on the fact that his courage has proven to be “contagious.”
Journalists compare Zelenskyi, who remained in Ukraine during the most unpredictable period, with the “more experienced” president of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, who fled the capital during the approach of Taliban forces.
Zelensky was able to adapt, he proved to be trained not to lose his composure under pressure.
Following Zelenskyi, thousands of Ukrainians took up arms to defend their homes, the publication says.
In the first hours of the invasion, the president was informed that Russia was trying to transfer thousands of troops to the outskirts of Kyiv on military transport planes, and he gave orders to stop these planes from landing at all costs. One of his advisers, Mykhailo Podolyak, had never seen Zelensky so angry. “He gave the strictest orders: do not spare. Use all available weapons.”
But these orders were superfluous, because the Ukrainians themselves put up heroic resistance.
It is noted that Zelenskyy gave the generals freedom to fight, while he focused on trying to convince the world of Ukraine’s victory at any cost.