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Olena Selenska
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The Ukrainian First Lady Olena Selenska recalled the suffering in her country in the face of the debate about rising consumer prices in Europe.
"While you start counting the pennies in your account or in your pocket, let's do the same and count our victims," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's wife said in a BBC interview due to air in full on Sunday .
The 44-year-old said that the stories of the people fleeing the war or even losing their lives and their faces should be known all over the world.
"Not the number of bombs dropped or the sums spent, but human stories - and there are thousands of them."
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Selenska repeatedly comments publicly on the Ukraine war.
In July, for example, she spoke moving words in the US Capitol: »Terror continues.
And I appeal to all of you (...).
I'm asking now for something I never wanted to ask.
I ask for guns.
Weapons not used to fight a war on someone else's land.
But to protect your own home«
About her husband's journey from actor to war president, Selenska said she was offended when people wondered about it.
"He's the same man I've always known," she said.
Volodymyr Zelenskyj and his wife have known each other since they were students, have been married since 2003 and have two children together.
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