A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

The president of Ukraine is angry; not about the (he sees none) nor even about his own army’s on the battlefield. Instead, Volodymyr Zelensky is exasperated by the , as well as a sense of detachment among some of his compatriots. And he wants you to know it.Hardened by the pressures of war, a year of negative headlines and the failure of a counter-offensive that promised so much at the start of 2023, he has shed the lightness and humour of . Seated in his situation room and speaking to via Zoom, he punches out his message as if trying to break through the computer screen.