I got the first question. In light of strange recent video footage showing the Russian leader gripping a Kremlin table with both hands, I asked Zelenskiy why Putin had invaded. Was Putin mad or ill? Or had he gone to war for some other reason? Zelenskiy told me Russia’s president had “always wanted to do something like this,” adding that much of Russian society shared his prejudice that Ukraine shouldn’t exist. “This is a war for Ukraine’s freedom, so we can live,” he said.
