Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky Named Time’s Person Of The Year

President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has been named Time’s 2022 Person of the Year.

Time Magazine announced this on Wednesday, hailing the wartime president for his unwavering strength and “contagious” courage in the face of “unprovoked Russian aggression.”

Zelensky, who has led his country in the ongoing war with Russia, refused to leave the country at the onset of the war irrespective of offers from other country leaders.

Instead, Zelensky has been constantly seeking support from world leaders during the war, which has lasted for over ten months.

The magazine cover read, “TIME’s 2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine.”

Time’s reporter, Simon Shuster, wrote: “Zelensky’s success as a wartime leader has relied on the fact that courage is contagious.

“It spread through Ukraine’s political leadership in the first days of the invasion, as everyone realised the president had stuck around.

“His professional instincts derived from a lifetime as an actor on the stage meant he knew how to read a crowd and react to its moods and expectations. Now his audience was the world. He was determined not to let them down.

“Courage came to define his fellow Ukrainians, too. Instead of running for their lives, many Ukrainians grabbed whatever weapons they could find and ran to defend their towns and cities against an invading force armed with tanks and attack helicopters.”