Time’s Shuster: Anonymous sources are current advisers to Ukrainian president
Pravda Ukraine
Journalist Simon Shuster has reported that for his controversial article in the Time magazine, he spoke only with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s current advisers.
Source: Shuster in a comment for Ukrainska Pravda
According to Shuster, if you read the text carefully, it is not about former advisers, it is never “former employees” of the president’s office. We are talking about the current advisers of President Zelenskyy. The word “former” is not found anywhere, in any sentence, the author says.
That being said, Oleksii Arestovych has not been working in the president’s office since the spring-summer of 2022, which was the last time Shuster talked with him, he says.
Details: Shuster believes that people wanted to speak anonymously to draw attention to the problems without putting themselves at risk. He also noted that he spent three weeks in Kyiv, meeting with a large number of people to discuss various problems. And one of the topics Shuster plans to write about is the difficulties of a counteroffensive and the need for a technological breakthrough for Ukraine. Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, already reported about this in a column for The Economist.
The journalist also noted that he did not expect such a public reaction to the article, and the controversy surprised him.
Background:
- The American Time magazine published an article on the problems faced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the war, starting with the situation at the front and international support, and ending with the fight against corruption.
- Citing members of the president’s circle, Simon Shuster, the article’s author, noted that Zelenskyy feels “angry” after his last visit to the US.
- It was said Zelenskyy no longer has “the usual sparkle of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to liven up a meeting in the war room with a bit of banter or a bawdy joke” in the second year of the war.
- Shuster wrote that some people from Zelenskyy’s circle are convinced that the president “deludes himself”. “We’re out of options. We’re not winning. But try telling him that,” an unnamed representative told the article’s author.
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