While Tuesday’s image was the explosion of the Kiev tower, the Ukrainian president appeared on CNN, without ready text and in broken English, in a bunker in the capital itself, “tired and stressed”, in the description of the news channel.
“Is there any hope, with the world watching, for diplomacy?” asked reporter Matthew Chance.
“I wanted to, I really wanted to, and I asked them: First of all, everyone has to stop fighting and go back to that point where they started six days ago,” replied Volodymyr Zelensky.
After a few confusing sentences, he added that “if the other side isn’t ready, you’re just wasting your time.”
He then returned to demand, from Joe Biden, a greater military presence in the country. And he ended up hearing a question about his “transformation from comic actor to world-famous wartime leader.”
Zelensky didn’t seem to like it: “This is very serious, this is not a movie. I am not an icon. Ukraine is an icon.”
‘NEW MACARTISM’
With the veto of Russian artists like the conductor Valery Gergiev and the Bolshoi dancers, by institutions from New York to London and Milan, Bloomberg highlighted an article denouncing “the new McCarthyism”, the “witch hunt”.
And the German Süddeutsche Zeitung, from Munich, charged the mayor for the “expulsion” of Gergiev, “a sad act”.
CHINA IN THE MIDDLE
The portal Guancha, from Shanghai, headlined the conversation between the Chinese and Ukrainian foreign ministers, citing the possible “mediation” of the conflict by China. And Beijing’s Caixin said it had heard from China’s TikTok that it would now “squash disinformation about the war”.
PLAN BRAZIL
Amidst the news of the war in Europe, the Financial Times published a page comparing Brazil from the PCC “empire” to “Colombia in the 1990s”, pre-Plan Colombia.
Citing the US Department of Justice, American University in Washington and a PF delegate in Presidente Prudente (SP), he says that the PCC “began to infiltrate the Brazilian state as the cartels did in Colombia”.
