Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words

ON MARCH 25TH 2022 Ukraine’s president spoke in person to The Economist in what he and his staff have taken to calling “the fortress”. Here are highlights of what he told us—switching freely between English, Ukrainian and Russian. We have edited them for clarity. You are an actor and president. Now you are being called a 21st-century Churchill. It’s an extraordinary change. How did it happen?