President Volodymyr Zelensky: Ex-comedian who galvanised the West and stood against Putin

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky poses after an interview with Reuters in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 1, 2022. [Reuters]

"If we are attacked by the troops, if they try to take our country away from us, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves. Not attack, but defend ourselves. And when you attack us you will see our faces, not our backs but our faces.”