Book excerpt reveals details of Zelensky’s bunker routine during first weeks of invasion

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Kyiv Independent
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses Israel’s Knesset on March 20, 2022. Credit: Courtesy of president.gov.ua.

President Volodymyr Zelensky was said to have “resembled a walking corpse” in the first weeks of the full-scale invasion, which he did not believe would happen “until the final hours,” the Telegraph reported on Jan. 4 in an excerpt of a book on Zelensky by Time journalist Simon Shuster. Zelensky and his team reportedly lived in the bunker under the President’s Office with little sunlight and with “not much to eat,” other than sweets, tinned meat, and stale bread. One minister told Shuster he “survived for days on chocolate.” Some government officials had “packed up their cars and fled” in the …

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