
In the war room: our exclusive visit to Zelensky’s “fortress”
The Intelligence from The Economist
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The Importance of Victory
The interview was conducted in a rather chaotic combination of three different languages. President Zelensky speaks really quite good English now and indulged me by speaking in English for a lot of the time. But when he got tired of speaking English, he felt it was important to respond to questions in English in Ukrainian, not in Russian. So we had a complete Malay and at one point there wasn't a formal interpreter... but we got through it and we now switch in this Ukrainian.
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