Zelensky Didn’t Try To Be Churchill — and It Worked
He addressed Congress, and America, in a speech executed with humor, emotion, and even props — a Ukrainian battle flag and an olive sweater with the nation’s coat of arms.
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, is being showered with compliments comparing his congressional address to that of Winston Churchill, but history isn’t doling out the British Bulldog’s cigar and siren suit just yet.
The night began with a blunder sure to make Ukrainians cringe and the president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, snicker. Speaker Pelosi introduced Mr. Zelensky as “president of the Ukraine,” which is considered odious. In 2014, a former ambassador to Kiev, William Taylor, told Time, “Ukraine is a country. ‘The Ukraine’ is the way the Russians referred to that part of the country during Soviet times.”
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