Time Magazine on Wednesday named Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy its person of the year, awarding him the accolade “for proving that courage can be as contagious as fear.”
Editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said the choice of Zelenskyy — alongside “the spirit of Ukraine” — was “the most clear-cut in memory.”
“Whether the battle for Ukraine fills one with hope or with fear, the world marched to Volodymyr Zelensky’s beat in 2022,” he said.
A comedian-turned-politician who was elected to lead Ukraine in 2019, Zelenskyy has worked ceaselessly since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24 to inspire his country’s resistance and marshal international support for Ukraine.
Felsenthal said Zelenskyy’s decision when the war started “not to flee Kyiv but to stay and rally support was fateful.”
“For proving that courage can be as contagious as fear, for stirring people and nations to come together in defense of freedom, for reminding the world of the fragility of democracy — and of peace — Volodymyr Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine are TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year,” he added.
The magazine also highlighted people said to embody the spirit of Ukraine. They include engineer Oleg Kutkov, who helped keep Ukraine connected; Olga Rudenko, editor of the Kyiv Independent; and British combat surgeon David Nott.
Time’s annual selection has sparked debate and sometimes controversy since it began in 1927. The 2021 person of the year was Elon Musk, the tech, telecoms and space magnate who recently bought Twitter. In 2020, the title went to U.S. President Joe Biden — at the time president-elect — and Vice President Kamala Harris.
(AP)
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He earned it on every stage
Last January, just after the US capitulation in Afghanistan, the US and the Europeans were willing to let Putin conquer Ukraine. By defeating the Russian takeover, he revolutionized American foreign policy (remember that when Russia seized Ukraine in 2014, Obama/Biden dishonored the US commitment guaranteeing Ukraine’s borders and refused to send anything more lethal than combat rations). Ukraine motivated Europe to start rearming, and NATO to seriously prepare for war if Russia moves on any new countries. In all fairness, Ukraine’s success in surviving probably delayed or cancelled a Russian move on the Baltic states, and a Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Who cares!!!!
Who cares what Time magazine thinks is the man/ him/ her/ they/ her / or it of the year is?
Unless there is no better things to says or print like in The Yeshiva World News and must fill in blank spaces.
Haha this will be one to look back upon and laugh
Does anyone know his Hebrew name and his parents’? Surely the Chabad people in Ukraine would know.
what are the ruskis going to say?