Zelenskyy on life after presidency: I want to walk the streets without anyone wanting to kill or hate me

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

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

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

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

Quote: "It's not that people will respect you. It's about in 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 (censored), 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:

• Volodymyr 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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