Addendum Comment #36
Volodymyr Zelenskyy was elected President of Ukraine on April 21, 2019. On 20 May, 2019, he was sworn in as the 6th President of Ukraine.
On 25 February, Zelenskyy said that despite Russia’s claim that it was targeting only military sites, civilian sites were also being hit. In an early morning address that day, Zelenskyy said that his intelligence services had identified him as Russia’s top target, but that he is staying in Kyiv and his family will remain in the country. “They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state”, he said.
In the early hours of 26 February, during the most significant assault by Russian troops on the capital of Kyiv, the United States government and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged Zelenskyy to evacuate to a safer location, and both offered assistance for such an effort. Zelenskyy turned down both offers and opted to remain in Kyiv with its defense forces, saying that “the fight is here [in Kyiv]; I need ammunition, not a ride”.
More than 90% of Ukrainians supported the actions of Zelenskyy, including more than 90% in western and central Ukraine and more than 80% in Russian-speaking regions in eastern and southern Ukraine. A Pew Research Center poll found that 72% of Americans had confidence in Zelenskyy’s handling of international affairs.
Only 90% support Zelensky??? LOL Are you sure it’s not 120%?
Unlike you, I’ve been all over Ukraine pre-war (Kyiv, Zaporizhia, Kharkiv, Donbass / Donetsk, Mariupol etc) That number is absolute BULLSHIT and only a credulous ignoramus would believe it.
The fact is: the CIA ran the ‘revolution’ in Ukraine in 2014, and there hasn’t been an ‘independent’ Ukraine since then.