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I am Olena Zelensky, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodmymr Zelensky. (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 OP
For the life of me, I just don't understand why or how Putin is still alive. nt. Samrob Feb 2022 #1
You have to wonder who benefits from his being alive any more MadameButterfly Feb 2022 #18
As his forcescrumbled & Allies advanced, he hid a bunker and hesitated ... patience, patience NotHardly Mar 2022 #52
He is reportedly the richest man in the world LiberalLovinLug Mar 2022 #37
"All that wealth he has stolen from the Russian people"... do they know? I know Navalny has mitch96 Mar 2022 #40
I just don't understand what piles of money get you. The Jungle 1 Mar 2022 #42
Thats true, what is concerning is the amount of damage a person could do with that kind of money LiberalLovinLug Mar 2022 #53
True, the money gets you power The Jungle 1 Mar 2022 #54
gotta be someone qazplm135 Mar 2022 #51
My heart goes out for them, their beautiful family and all of Ukraine. sheshe2 Feb 2022 #2
I hope she is out of the country. Jim__ Feb 2022 #3
I am hoping that she is out of the country LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #4
23% of their military force are women Jarqui Feb 2022 #6
According to the Daily Mail Danascot Mar 2022 #41
If you'd like to see more Zelensky family photos True Dough Feb 2022 #5
I hope my cat outlives that monster. niyad Feb 2022 #8
. . . niyad Feb 2022 #7
Families were off limits, even to the Mafia. DemocratSinceBirth Feb 2022 #9
This message was self-deleted by its author speak easy Feb 2022 #10
Here is a Less Formal photo - Feb 16 - days before the war. speak easy Feb 2022 #11
She is quite stunning. sky_masterson Mar 2022 #47
Such visual contrast. Happy people. Compared to Putin and his barbarianism ffr Feb 2022 #12
I think I might revert to a phrase from my youth soldierant Feb 2022 #16
Stunning and courageous. Joinfortmill Feb 2022 #13
She's lovely. dixiechiken1 Feb 2022 #14
contrast to the useless traitor melania samsingh Feb 2022 #15
Who is silent, proving she is a useless, plastic Barbie, void of any competence. Vapid. Evolve Dammit Feb 2022 #17
I am so glad the the US no longer has a former sex worker as FLOTUS LetMyPeopleVote Feb 2022 #23
This message was self-deleted by its author Mary in S. Carolina Feb 2022 #25
I know, if she had owned her sex worker status Farmer-Rick Mar 2022 #46
This message was self-deleted by its author Mary in S. Carolina Mar 2022 #50
Why bring her up on this at all ? JI7 Mar 2022 #32
Captain Ukraine's wife is just as brave. onecaliberal Feb 2022 #19
So I guess Zelensky only has one "y?" ecstatic Feb 2022 #20
His first name is spelled incorrectly. LisaL Feb 2022 #22
Thanks, I was learning how Cha Mar 2022 #28
There are media reports that more than 400 members of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary company, TomSlick Feb 2022 #21
WOW, she's beautiful outside and I'm sure inside as well! 🌹nt Raine Feb 2022 #24
She is amazing n/t oxymoron Mar 2022 #26
Olena Zelensky is beautiful.. Cha Mar 2022 #27
She is smart as heck as well - beauty & brains onetexan Mar 2022 #29
Yes Indeed.. Mahalo, onetexan! Cha Mar 2022 #38
What a phenomal woman the first lady of Ukraine is and such beautiful family. PunkinPi Mar 2022 #30
So Grateful for Social Media so Cha Mar 2022 #39
YW, Cha...social media can be a wonderful tool sometimes. :) nt PunkinPi Mar 2022 #44
If this family is killed or imprisoned, I think the world is going to freak out. honest.abe Mar 2022 #45
yet another victim of war by madman RussBLib Mar 2022 #31
Putin is getting more angrier and furious every passing second Roc2020 Mar 2022 #33
Agreed birdographer Mar 2022 #35
If this picture doesn't rally the entire world, I don't know what will anymore LetMyPeopleVote Mar 2022 #34
The entire world is already rallied Roc2020 Mar 2022 #36
The picture of Z's family are worth a billion words, and easily outdoes anything that putin SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #43
🙏🏻 For them Meowmee Mar 2022 #48
This message was self-deleted by its author sl8 Mar 2022 #49
She is beautiful! Emile Mar 2022 #55

MadameButterfly

(1,036 posts)
18. You have to wonder who benefits from his being alive any more
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 09:22 PM
Feb 2022

since he's bankrupted his cronies and is now tanking the Russian economy.

He must have a lot of security and a lot of people who are afraid to cross him.
Is that enough for him to survive?

NotHardly

(1,062 posts)
52. As his forcescrumbled & Allies advanced, he hid a bunker and hesitated ... patience, patience
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:50 PM
Mar 2022

... the cold blue steel of the gun's muzzle surprised him but almost instantly grew warm against the sweat fevered on temple flesh. He closed his eyes and addressed the General.

"You won't hesitate will you? I..."

He'd ordered his General to shoot him as he could not bring himself to end his own life.

"Coward to the end." General Kickshemioff dropped the gun and wiped the bits of splattered blood from his hand and turning smartly on his heel, he strode out of the bunker to his own fate.


THE END



We need a bit of patience ourselves.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,164 posts)
37. He is reportedly the richest man in the world
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:06 PM
Mar 2022

By corruption, including stealing the corporate empires of a lot of his fellow oligarchs in the early days of his Presidency from those who did not support him.

All that wealth he has stolen from the Russian people. Too bad they don't seem too upset by it. Or enough have been brainwashed by his cult of personality.

mitch96

(13,870 posts)
40. "All that wealth he has stolen from the Russian people"... do they know? I know Navalny has
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:33 PM
Mar 2022

been trying to let his fellow Russians about what's going on..
m

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
42. I just don't understand what piles of money get you.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:30 PM
Mar 2022

Yo puketin yer going to die just like the rest of us. Your bag of gold means nothing when the ticker stops.

LiberalLovinLug

(14,164 posts)
53. Thats true, what is concerning is the amount of damage a person could do with that kind of money
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 09:03 PM
Mar 2022

Here on Earth before they die.

Funding a mega troll army interfering in multiple western nations.
Bribery of politicians in many countries to do his bidding.
Hiring of all kinds of nefarious characters to carry out missions for him in western nations.

Now he probably doesn't even have to use his own personal wealth for any of this. But just by having it, he wields so much authority and power to persuade and intimidate others in his circle to agree with him, and they all will make more Roubles.

 

The Jungle 1

(4,552 posts)
54. True, the money gets you power
Wed Mar 2, 2022, 09:06 AM
Mar 2022

But why not use the money to help humanity. There is no way puketin believes he is helping his country or humanity.
He is 69 years old. There is an end date. He will be a rich man in a box in the cold earth.

qazplm135

(7,447 posts)
51. gotta be someone
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 07:04 PM
Mar 2022

who really wants to be President and thinks he can do a better job and has the ability to find someone to get close to him.

Jim__

(14,063 posts)
3. I hope she is out of the country.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 07:54 PM
Feb 2022

I understand why Volodmymr is staying in Ukraine. If she's not fighting, she should leave.

Danascot

(4,690 posts)
41. According to the Daily Mail
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:26 PM
Mar 2022

she and her children are in Kyiv with her husband. I had read that she was staying lat week.

She once opposed his plans to become president but Ukraine's First Lady has proved to be her husband Volodymyr Zelensky's most steadfast supporter and remains by his side after he refused to leave the country in the face of the Russian invasion.

Olena Zelenska, 44, has risked her life by going into hiding with her husband, their daughter, 17, and son, nine, choosing to stand with their countrymen rather than flee.

'I will not have panic and tears,' the mother-of-two wrote on Instagram in the hours after the first attacks last week. 'I will be calm and confident. My children are looking at me. I will be next to them. And next to my husband. And with you.'


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-10559655/Ukraines-steadfast-Lady-Olena-Zelenska.html

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

ffr

(22,665 posts)
12. Such visual contrast. Happy people. Compared to Putin and his barbarianism
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 08:32 PM
Feb 2022

Hiring 40+ mercenaries to kill Heads of State and their families.

This is not the world we should accept. We might as well all live under Putin's oppression. But before I would EVER be forced to do that, I'd reply, Putin, GO FUCK YOURSELF!

Evolve Dammit

(16,697 posts)
17. Who is silent, proving she is a useless, plastic Barbie, void of any competence. Vapid.
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 09:22 PM
Feb 2022

or just subservient and clueless. I really don't care Do U?

Response to LetMyPeopleVote (Reply #23)

Farmer-Rick

(10,135 posts)
46. I know, if she had owned her sex worker status
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:28 PM
Mar 2022

And tried to help other sex workers, I think Americans would have loved her. But she always lied about her sex work. She lied about fake degrees, she lied about speaking different languages.

She posed completely nude having sex with other women. She did the rich men sex parties to make money. She was looking for a sugar daddy.

But hay, life in Slovania was hard. She did what she had to do. But pretending she was some fashion model, some kind of intellectual, some kind of grifting business woman. She comes off so FAKE, cruel and uncaring. As if catching a disgusting orange sugar daddy like TFG was an accomplishment in itself.

What are you so ashamed of Melanija Knavs?

I bet there are a lot of skeletons in her closet that have been hidden with Trump's and Putin's money.

Response to Farmer-Rick (Reply #46)

Cha

(296,848 posts)
28. Thanks, I was learning how
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:22 AM
Mar 2022

to pronounce his first name and then I see this and couldn't say it to myself anymore.

TomSlick

(11,088 posts)
21. There are media reports that more than 400 members of the Wagner Group, a Russian mercenary company,
Mon Feb 28, 2022, 09:45 PM
Feb 2022

has been dispatched to Ukraine to assassinate members of the Ukrainian political leadership.

I would normally cite to Faux Spews but it confirms the reports. https://www.foxnews.com/world/wagner-group-russian-paramilitary-group-ukraine

Cha

(296,848 posts)
27. Olena Zelensky is beautiful..
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:19 AM
Mar 2022

inside and out.

Can you imagine being marked for death by fucked up vlad.

PunkinPi

(4,874 posts)
30. What a phenomal woman the first lady of Ukraine is and such beautiful family.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 11:01 AM
Mar 2022



This is a powerful message from Ukraine’s First Lady, #OlenaZelenska. She’s a mother, a wife, an accomplished professional, a patriot. Never forget that when one person serves in politics, the whole family ends up serving. That is most definitely the case here. #StandWithUkraine



May they all be safe!

Cha

(296,848 posts)
39. So Grateful for Social Media so
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 03:22 PM
Mar 2022

we can hear straight from the people what's going on at many times!

Rt TY for this tweet with her family pictured & her Inspiring Words, Punkin!



honest.abe

(8,614 posts)
45. If this family is killed or imprisoned, I think the world is going to freak out.
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 06:11 PM
Mar 2022

I hate Putin and his henchmen.

Roc2020

(1,613 posts)
33. Putin is getting more angrier and furious every passing second
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 12:53 PM
Mar 2022

And the only humans that can stop him are the humans in Russia. The likely end to this...my fingers are sweaty just typing this...but a nuclear strike somewhere either in Europe or the U.S.

birdographer

(1,307 posts)
35. Agreed
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 01:27 PM
Mar 2022

He's angry, cornered, and mentally unstable. With nukes. I don't hold up much hope for anyone killing him, though. I hope I'm wrong.

Roc2020

(1,613 posts)
36. The entire world is already rallied
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 01:55 PM
Mar 2022

Questions are how to stop Putin and this War. And can the world bear the cost.

SWBTATTReg

(22,065 posts)
43. The picture of Z's family are worth a billion words, and easily outdoes anything that putin
Tue Mar 1, 2022, 05:38 PM
Mar 2022

can dish out, coward that he is.

Such a beautiful family. I pray that all remain safe and sound in the days, months, years to come, and that putin pays a steep price.

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