Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a new interview that Russian troops came very close to arrest him and his family. He made a revelation when talking to Time magazine, while remembering the early days of the intense Ukraine war.Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the invasion on February 24, and Zelensky remembered from the existing memories “in a fragmented way” what happened that day.
One of the clearest memories, said the President in the interview, was that he and his wife Olena Zelenska woke up their 17 -year -old daughter and a 9 -year -old son to tell them that the bombing had begun.”It’s hard. There is an explosion there, “said Zelensky.It will soon be clear that Zelensky is the target and the president’s office is not the safest place. The President said he was told that the Russian strike team had plunged into Kyiv to kill or arrest him and his family.”Before that night, we had only seen things like that in the film,” Andriy Yermak, Chief of Staff Zelensky, told the time that detailed how the president’s guards tried to secure the complex.A gate at the rear entrance was blocked with a pile of police barricades and plywood boards, resembling mounds of trash bins more than fortresses.
On the first night of Russian attacks, the lights were turned off and the guard in the complex carried bulletproof vests and assault rifles for Zelensky and its maids.Oleksiy Aestovych, a veteran of the Ukraine Military Intelligence Service, said that the scene was “crazy house”, and noted that Russian troops tried to invade the complex twice while Zelensky’s wife and children were still there.The leader of Ukraine was praised globally for his courage in the midst of Russian attacks. Zelensky refused our offer to leave the country, swear to stay back and fight.
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