My Meeting with President Zelensky
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7 min readMar 18, 2023
It was a peaceful and hot summer of 2019. Ukraine was recovering from a political storm of presidential elections in March and April, with a record 44 candidates — the best illustration of a young and vibrant Ukrainian democracy. The election elevated, as many thought at the time, a random figure to the political Olympus — actor and comedian Volodymir Zelensky.