Zelensky’s interview with Time magazine revealed: “You just have to stop one person for millions to live”

“It’s a completely crazy house”said Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelensky in an interview with the magazine Timewhere he declared that he was one of Vladimir Putin’s targets at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ensuring that this war was the only door for the Russian president “to enter Europe”.

“I just need it restrain someone for millions to survive, ”Zelensky said in a note in which he announced, for example, how Russian troops tried to penetrate the president’s residence, in the center of kyiv, on at least two occasions, when the president, former actor and now.a leader of the Ukrainian resistance, and his family is inside.

Zelensky gave an extensive interview to Time magazine journalist Simon Shuster, with whom lived 15 days for the report.

On the note, Zelensky describes the first hours of the invasion as “an absolute madhouse”. Although his memories are “fragmented,” he said the morning of Feb. 24 is etched in his memory.

After the first bombings in the Ukrainian capital, which were heard before sunrise; he and his wife, Olena Zelenska, went to wake their 17-year-old daughter and nine-year-old son in prepare for escape.

“There was a lot of noise, you could hear the explosions,” Zelensky recalled at the start of the attack on Feb. 24. “We woke them up. The noise.”

Paratroopers in kyiv

Zelenskys soon realized that the capital it is not a safe place to stay. The Ukrainian army informed the president that the Russian soldiers they parachute in kyiv to kill or arrest him and his family.

“Before that night We see things like this in movies“, admitted to American magazine the president’s chief of staff, Andriy Yermak.

On February 24, President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the offensive in Ukraine, which continues to advance to this day.

“You understand that they are looking at you. You are a symbol. You have to act the way the head of state should act ”

Volodymyr Zelensky

President of Ukraine

According to Time, it happened that night a special operation to evacuate the president and his familya task that is “not easy.”

Evacuating the president’s family is the first step. Then you have to do arm and capassured the president, praising the resistance and leadership he displayed during the conflict in Russia.

Oleksiy Arestovych, a veteran of Ukraine’s military intelligence service, who was also interviewed by Time, recalled what happened next: “The guards inside the complex turn off the light and they brought bulletproof vests and assault rifles for Zelensky and a dozen of his assistants. “

However, despite the recommendations of major world leaders, Zelensky decided to stay in the country and join “his people”.

“You understand that they are looking at you. You are a symbol. You have to act the way the head of state should act,” the president said, appearing on the cover of the latest issue of Time.

The Ukrainian leader warned that not only blood has been shed in his country since this war it was Putin’s only door “to enter Europe”.

ang“You just have to stop one person for millions to survive,” he warned.

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