The Russian invasion of Ukraine has brought to the foreground of world news to a beautiful 44-year-old woman, Olena Zelenska, by profession architect and film screenwriter, who is the wife of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelenski.
“According to our information, the enemy scored me as goal number one, my family is goal number two, they go for us,” the president said in a dramatic message to the nation after the attack of Putin.
“It is said that I left Kiev, but I stayed in the capital with my family,” Zelenski revealed from the secret bunker where he has remained hidden with his wife and two children, Aleksandra, 17, and Kiril, of 9,
to protect your life.
Meanwhile, a “Russian death squadron” composed of soldiers who had distributed photos and a detailed description of their goal, it tracked through the surrounding forests of the capital in search of senior Ukrainian officials to execute.
Volodimir and Olena form one of the most united and influential couples of the East Countries: of the same age, 44 years, were born in Kryvyi Rih, the eighth most populated city in Ukraine and are known from small, because they were college companions.
It would not be however until they started their university studies, he of lawyer and her architect, when it emerged between chemistry, and after eight years of courtship, the “yes, I want” on September 6, 2003. His first-born, Aleksandra
He came to the world in 2004 and in 2013 he did the male, Kiril.
Olena did not hesitate to support her partner at the turn of 365 degrees that Volodimir gave her existence, when she parked the law to become an actor, director, humorist and television presenter, founding in the year of her marriage the Kvaltal Producer 95 where her
Wife began to work as a scriptwriter.
The current President jumped to fame after producing and starred in 2015 to 2019 the Political Satire of the town as then would also be called the political party that founded, where paradoxically embodied a honest teacher earned the elections after becoming a star of the networks
social.
When Zelenski again decided to give a turn to his life to dedicate himself to politics, this time Ocena was more reluctant.
“She was frank and aggressively against her,” he recognized the first lady, which she even refused to participate in the electoral campaign, although she did accompany him when she swore her position as president in May 2019 after deviling in the elections
.
“He was very motivated, people sent him messages constantly and he no longer made sense to oppose me,” she said resignedly.
From there, the first Ukrainian lady has focused on supporting campaigns for mental health, against domestic violence and especially from healthy eating in children, promoting the reform of the school menu in Ukrainian schools under the fund of the Fund of
United Nations.
She is also considered a style icon, reaching a cover of the Vogue of Ukraine and to participate in a UN forum on sustainable clothing.
All this has become an influencer, since it has about two million followers on its Instagram and is a more renowned women in their country, to the point that in 2019 Focus Magazine included it on the list of one hundred
Ukrainians more influential.
His latest messages on networks from the secret bunker where he hides with his family have moved to the world.
“My beloved, Ukrainian people, I’m not afraid or tears, my children look at me, I’m with them and with you, and next to my husband,” he published in his Instagram Olena with a photo next to the flag of Ukraine.
