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@the-jam-to-the-unicorn @my-whortleberry-friend @harri-etvane @daria-autumn-girl

Is it...? Dressed in black in the back...?

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #zelensky #russian invasion of ukraine #bodyguard #maksym donets #voksym

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If I may make my own additions: Ukraine spring/summer 2022

ukrainian flag is like this on purpose

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The urge to print out posters of all of my favorite Zelenskyy pictures...

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #zelensky

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This Ze interview moment from 6 months ago randomly keeps popping into my head, and I love it. But I always wonder:

What the hell was he on?

& Was he okay??

Like listen, no judgment or anything (hell, I sincerely wish for him to get shitfaced drunk so he can relax and sleep dreamlessly) but I'm genuinely curious. This was such an odd behavior/speech pattern/tone of voice/body language/answer/everything.

What do y'all think? No hate, just speculate (it rhymes).

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #zelensky #russian invasion of ukraine #was he okay?

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Still no Maksym in sight.

At what point do we start going into code red?

#WHERE #THE HELL #IS MAKS?!

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Not me picturing Vova passing Olena a note in class like:

"Do you like me? Yes✅ No ⛔ "

And Olena turning around like "Vova, we're married."

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #zelensky #olena zelenska #volena #couple goals #📝

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THIS IS NOT A DRILL PEOPLE!!!! NEW "GLASSES PIC"!!!!!

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #zelensky #glasses #he looks so good #sexy professor look #look at hiiiiim

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New haircut, people!!

#volodymyr zelenskyy #ukraine #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #zelensky

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Writing a paper on Babyn Yar during Spring Break while being sick is just great. Just. Great.

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@abloodredsettingsun Because of all the snippets, I couldn't wait until my finals were done to buy it!

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #zelensky #iiulia mendel

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That is exactly what I texted my friends!!

I can't image the party that emerged in Bankova when they got the news from the US. The joyful screams could probably be heard everywhere. I am so incredible happy for them!🥳🥳🥳🥳

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Peeps. Y'all. My fellow experts. Are we spotting a wild Maks in the background there??? Or am I seeing things??

(Hugo Décrypte interview, April 17th 2024)

@the-jam-to-the-unicorn @harri-etvane @my-whortleberry-friend @sarrathezelenskyfan @daria-autumn-girl

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #zelensky #bodyguard #maksym donets

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Ok but THIS SCENE is why I 🚢

Bonus:

Servant of the People - S03E01

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My heart.

But also we need those videos.

In the video archive of President Zelenskyy’s press office, there were some extremely interesting clips that hadn’t ever appeared in public. We decided to preserve them: first, because the press office should keep everything, and second, because for us these video clips were filled with pleasant and amusing moments. In one, President Zelenskyy was chatting with two elderly priests when the videographer recording their interaction broke a vase. We couldn’t see the vase in the frame, but we could hear that he knocked something over and the object fell and broke. The old men looked at the videographer with surprise and indignation, but the president walked over to the broken object, bent down, and picked up the fragments. It was one of those moments when we saw the president’s common decency and simplicity – very important aspects of his character. And we laughed because the videographer, whose name was Vova, short of Volodymyr – the same nickname and name as the president’s – was carefully filming the entire time as the president bent down and gathered up all the fragments. Vova, of course, never thought to pick them up himself. There was another video, shot by the same videographer, from the front lines in Donbas. In February 2021, Zelenskyy traveled to Donbas with six foreign diplomats. Anka Feldhusen, the German ambassador to Ukraine, was having trouble fastening her helmet’s chin strap. The president noticed this and began to help her with it. I sent that short, sweet fourteen-second video to Anka. But there are other moments recorded only in our memory: For example, when we set out on one of our first trips to the provinces. It was like accompanying a rock star. So many people rushed over to see Zelenskyy, to join him as he walked, and, even better, to take selfies with him. They surrounded us in a tight circle, now and then shouting out the president’s first name or squealing with joy. Our security team struggled as the crowd pressed in to get a look. In the midst of the crowd was a young mother with a little girl, and she was struggling to lift her up. The crowd, shoving and pushing, was pressing in hard against the child. The frightened mother was at a loss. I was trying to protect the child, who had begun to cry. Zelenskyy heard her cries and turned back. He spotted the little girl, walked over to her, and gestured to the crowd to back off, and his security detail helped out. He squatted next to the crying child and tried to calm her. The crowd stopped shoving, and the mother asked for a selfie to remember the moment. I mention these trivial incidents only because seeing Zelenskyy in action, knowing his values and the way he views the world, made some of the characterizations of him seem ludicrous. They were, in fact, political attacks by his opponents attempting to demean him as a politician, constructing an alternative image of him online – as a coward, an arrogant jerk, or a fool.

Iuliia Mendel, The Fight of Our Lives: My Time with Zelenskyy, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy, and What It Means for the World

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Russian tank in Ukraine spotted with improvised armor.

This war is something fucking else.

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Haven't seen Maks in a while...

#ukraine #volodymyr zelenskyy #president zelenskyy #zelenskyy #russian invasion of ukraine #zelensky #bodyguard #maksym donets #where is he??? #he better be okay

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Russian lies are meant not only to disinform, to make action more difficult, but also to demotivate, to make action seem senseless. Russian memes work not by presenting Russia as a positive alternative, but by demoralizing others. No one wants to be close to "Nazis," and the simple introduction of the lie is confusing and saddening. The same holds with the Russian meme to the effect that Ukraine is corrupt. A completely bogus Russian source introduced the entirely fake idea that the Ukrainian president had bought yachts. Although this was entirely untrue, Representative Greene then spread the fiction. Senator J.D. Vance also picked up the "yacht" example and used it as his justification for opposing aid to Ukraine. The larger sense of that lie is that everyone everywhere is corrupt, even the people who seem most admirable; and so we might as well give up on our heroes, on any struggle for democracy, or any struggle at all. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelens'kyi, chose to risk his life by remaining in Kyiv and defending his country against a fearsome attack from Russia which almost all outsiders believed would succeed within days. His daring gamble saved not only his own democracy, but opened a window of faith that democracies can defend themselves. It confirmed the basis lesson of liberty that individual choices have consequences. The lie directed at Zelens'kyi was meant not only to discredit him personally and undermine support for Ukraine, but also to persuade Americans that no one is righteous and nothing is worth defending.

Timothy Snyder