ZELENSKY IS TIME’S PERSON OF THE YEAR
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been named Time’s “Person of the Year” for stewarding his country through its ongoing conflict with Russia.
- Zelensky, a television comedian who was elected president in 2019, skyrocketed to global celebrity after Russia invaded Ukraine earlier this year.
- “Zelensky’s success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious,” Time said in its profile.