Owen Matthews Owen Matthews

What Zelensky has taken from his former TV career

His superb communication skills and targeted messaging, honed at his Kvartal 95 entertainment company, have proved powerful weapons of war

Volodymyr Zelensky – easily the equal of the most impressive wartime leaders the West has ever had. [Alamy]
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  • The Fight for Our Lives: My Time With Zelensky, Ukraine’s Battle for Democracy and What it Means for the World

    Iuliia Mendel, translated by Madeline G. Levine

    Atria/One Signal Publishers, pp. 240, £20

  • Zelensky: A Biography

    Serhiy Rudenko, translated by Michael Naydan and Alla Parminova

    Polity, pp. 200, £20

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