How did the war transform Volodymyr Zelensky?
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(CNN Spanish) --
"The president is here, we are all here, our military is here."
With this message posted on Facebook on the second night of the military invasion of Russia, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, challenged Moscow accompanied by some members of his cabinet from the streets of Kyiv.
Ukrainian intelligence denounced during the first weeks of the war that Russian mercenaries linked to the Wagner group had the mission of reaching the capital to assassinate Zelensky.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion on February 24, 2022, the President of Ukraine has used social media to call on his people to fight against the invaders.
Zelensky, 45, won the presidency in 2019 vowing to fight corruption.
Until then he was only known in his country as an actor and comedian.
His role as a school teacher unexpectedly rising to the presidency ended up being a reality.
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During these first 12 months of bloody war, Zelensky has won the hearts of many around the world, inspired by his resistance and defiance.
Even some leaders who once hesitated to back Ukraine are now backing Zelensky.
Time magazine singled him out in December 2022 as its person of the year, arguing that his success as a wartime leader "has been grounded in the fact that courage is contagious."
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On his first trip out of Ukraine since the war began, Zelensky met US President Joe Biden at the White House on December 21, 2022, and delivered a speech to Congress, calling for more help. to fight Russia.
US President Joe Biden (right) walks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky upon arrival for a visit in Kyiv on February 20, 2023. (Credit: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images)
Biden returned the visit in Kyiv on February 20.
Their meeting in the Ukrainian capital amid the sound of air-raid sirens is, according to CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson, the most powerful symbol of Vladimir Putin's failure to crush Ukraine's intentions to join NATO and force it back into the orbit of great Russia.
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