“No promises, so no disappointments,” said Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky during the election campaign that made him the president last May. It was a daring, even cynical thing for a politician to say, but then he’s not a politician.
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky holds a briefing in the Presidential Administration in Kyiv on June 27, 2019.
