Crucial week for Europe – Liberation

You can say that this man has endurance. Volodymyr Zelensky has been able to resist everything: Russian killers in the early hours of the invasion of Ukraine, bombs and missiles on Kyiv for more than three years, internal rivalries, procrastination of European leaders and until anger of Donald Trump in Mondovision in the oval office who could have laminated his image and credit lastingly. We chase him through the door, he fits out the window, we flatten him lower than earth, he straightens up like a spring, nothing seems to reach the Ukrainian president and that is his strength. He has known two American presidents, several British and German Sandlings, only one French president -with whom he became « Super friend », As he entrusted to our special envoy- two European mandates and he, leader of a country attacked by a giant, is still there, relaxed, ready to chat with everyone, first and especially with his worst enemy, Vladimir Putin. By taking the Russian president who said he was ready for discussions on Sunday at the word « Direct » with the Ukrainians and by offering him to find him Thursday in Istanbul or Ankara, fort of Total support for « the coalition of volunteers » Who threatened to harden sanctions on Moscow, Zelensky has confused his Russian counterpart who has since been a word. In the interview he gave French exclusively to Liberation, the Ukrainian president does not go to a dead hand: « I don’t think Putin is able to come, he will be afraid. But I still leave a little probability that he comes, because he is a leader, he is courageous, I suppose. ” Everything is in the « i guess » who will either hysterize Putin, or bend it. It is unlikely that this week marks the end of the war in Ukraine but, if Zelensky manages to take advantage of the support of Europeans and Donald Trump (who announced that Marco Rubio would be in Turkey on Thursday) and put Putin in embarrassment, so she will undoubtedly mark a turning point.