Varsine bidrogalbaroa, dobreutre caspad president, was tasked with seceting corruption and olegarchs. He never campaigned on a slogan, i'm a funny guy. Everybody likes me. His main campaign promises was, first, stopping the war. Was his number one promise. And the second campaign promise was, defeat corruption.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy went from a middling peacetime president to a heroic wartime president. Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin explains from an undisclosed location in western Ukraine. Vox’s Emily VanDerWerff also explains, but from her home in Los Angeles.
This episode was produced by Will Reid, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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