President Zelinsky - Is He the President That Ukraine Needs?

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Rajwan Persen: Zelinsky has been just the president that Ukraine needed in this moment. People tended to dismiss him very much as someone who didn't have the heft to be a president during war time, says Persen. He's done anything that he can to remind people that this war is going on, and no event is too small or too large to do that said Persen.

February 24 marks one year since Russia invaded Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin believed the country’s military would be defeated quickly and Kyiv, the capital, would fall. Instead, Ukraine’s clever, nimble — and motivated — military has fought back Russia’s forces despite being vastly outgunned.

But the war has taken a terrible toll. Thousands of people have died. Cites have been devastated and millions of displaced Ukrainians are now living as refugees in other countries.

Bloomberg journalists Daryna Krasnolutska and Marc Champion in Kyiv, and Rosalind Mathieson in London join this episode to take stock of all that has happened in the past year, and what lies ahead for Ukraine.

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