Three weeks ago, i would have said putten was going to win the p r war here. Putten has a tremendously large and usually effective propaganda operation. Rit what he lacks an army, he makes up for in propaganda. And it really comes down to his skills as someone who's good at being on camera,. As someone whos good at making things.
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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