Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky set a world record yesterday. He held the world’s longest press conference for any state leader in history. For fourteen hours, he took questions from nearly 300 international and Ukrainian journalists inside a new food court in Kyiv. UkraineWorld, a partner of UkraineAlert, participated in the press conference. Zelensky hasn’t given many press conferences, so yesterday’s conference was remarkable in many ways.
Zelensky was vague in many of his answers, but we’ve distilled the press conference into seven essential takeaways plus one unexpected exchange.
