As Zelensky leads, TIME portrays the war president in black and white
2022-04-28 22:50:39
TiranaPost
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been elected on the cover of TIME magazine, wanting to reveal "How Zelensky leads" the country in the middle of the war.
A magazine reporter was on the Ukrainian president's staff in April to see how he and his top advisers are experiencing the war. The cover photo was taken on April 19 in Kiev, with Zelensky appearing in a black-and-white photograph by Alexander Tsekmenev.
"The nights are the hardest, when he lies there in the crib, the screams of the air raid sirens in his ears and his phone are still buzzing next to him. The phone screen makes his face look like a ghost in the dark. His eyes scan messages he has not been able to read during the day, some of his wife and children, some of his advisers, some of his troops surrounding their shelters and asking him again for more weapons for break the Russian siege, ”the magazine describes the dark portrait of the Ukrainian President.
Zelensky argues that it is not stress that prevents him from sleeping but what is happening to his people who are being killed, raped and massacred by the Russians. "My conscience worries me. Civilians are still trapped underground or in ruins. The Russians continue to commit war crimes, rapes and torture. "Their bombs are flattening entire cities," he said.
"In all of this, Zelensky, the comedian who became president, has to keep people loyal and convince foreign leaders that his country needs their help now, at all costs. At the moment he does not know how the war will end, or how history will describe his country. All he knows at the moment is that Ukraine needs a wartime president. "And this is the role he intends to play," writes Time.
