“I’m the president of Ukraine,” he told reporters in February, “and I’m based here, and I think I know the details better here.”[2] In a January phone call, Zelensky communicated the same concern to the US president, even as Biden again shared the US intelligence assessment that Russian forces were set to invade. And he had even sharper criticism for the US as it and other western nations began to evacuate their diplomats from Ukraine. “Diplomats are like captains,” Zelensky said. “They should be the last to leave a sinking ship. And Ukraine is not the Titanic.”
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