WAR ROOM Inside room where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Widely seen as a political outsider and anti-establishment figure, he won a shock victory in the 2019 election – running on a pledge to end the conflict between Ukraine and Russia that Putin started by annexing Crimea in 2014. He was reasonably popular domestically, and had brief appearances on the world stage – including notoriously being drawn into Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial after he was accused of trying to blackmail Ukraine.
