Zelenskyy on life after presidency: I want to walk down the street without anyone hating me or wanting to kill me

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is trying to do his job in a way that will allow him to continue living in Ukraine after the war and the end of his presidency and be able to walk down the street without facing hatred from other people.

Source: Zelenskyy in an interview with Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Emma Tucker

Details: Asked by Tucker how he deals with the stress after years of full-scale war, Zelenskyy admitted he is not sure that he does.

He said he is trying to do his job in a way that would allow him to continue living in his own country when the war is over.

Quote: "It's not that people will respect you. It's about the way that you can continue after the war and after this presidential job, you will continue living [in] your country, go through the streets, and nobody will want to kill you, and hate you. And just because you've been like a piece of sh*t, not a leader, and not a man. I mean, this is what you do. The way how you live and the way how you try to live."

Background:

• Zelenskyy has called Russian leader Vladimir Putin "patient zero" who is spreading the idea of war around the world.
• Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stressed during a UN Security Council meeting that Russia's war against Ukraine poses a threat to the entire world.
• It was also reported that 50 countries and the European Union issued a joint statement in support of Ukraine at the UN, calling on Russia to agree to a ceasefire. The United States did not join the statement.
• The previous day, US President Donald Trump called on Putin to "settle the war" against Ukraine.

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