Fast becoming a cult hero, Ukraine’s leader Zelensky rejects US offer to expel him – Times of India

WASHINGTON: The United States is being rattled by Ukraine’s troubled leader Volodymyr Zelensky after he rejected a US offer to expel him. Kiev and told Washington that it needed anti-tank ammunition to attack Russian forces, “not riding” from the besieged country.
“The fight is here; I want ammunition, not a ride,” zelensky According to a message posted by the Ukrainian embassy in the UK, told Americans on their evacuation offer, which said, “Ukrainians are proud of their president.”

Zelensky, 44, a former comedian-turned-politician, is rapidly gaining the aura of a cult hero after changing from civilian uniform to a military uniform on Friday to fight for the defense of Kiev. Posts and memes celebrating his courage and commitment have flooded social media with unflattering comparisons with leaders in the US and other countries who have lost their security details at the first sign of danger.
While the American right wing like Dinesh D’Souza is criticizing the President Joe Biden With every day retiring early and heading to Delaware on weekend breaks in the midst of a crisis, the Left is humiliating Donald Trump for his golf outing, reminding his fan base how the fat former president has broken his bone. Spurs were ruled out of being listed.

By some accounts, CIA Warned Zelensky in early January that he was in Russia’s crosshairs. CIA Director William Burns Visited Moscow and Kiev on January 17-18 to mediate between the two sides as Russia began its military build-up. In pro-Russian fiction, Zelensky is considered a CIA puppet.
But Zelensky refused to believe that he and his family – wife Olena Zelenska, an architect and a screenwriter, a teenage daughter and a young son – will be targeted. In fact, he remained active until the moment of the invasion, repeatedly rebuking America and its allies for being on alert. He also rejected Washington’s advice not to leave Kiev to attend the Munich security conference last week, as the US feared Russia would launch a coup in his absence.

For once, the CIA has acquitted itself well so far, accurately predicting that as Russia goes down to the last detail, the Biden White House aggressively releases intelligence on an unprecedented scale. Either shame or inhibit the attack. Now it turns out that the CIA has been working for months to avert the crisis, with Burns visiting Moscow in November 2021 for a meeting with the Russian Security Council secretary. Nikolai Petrushev and the head of the Foreign Intelligence Service, Sergei Naryshkin amid rising tensions.

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