Sources of critical Time article are Zelenskyy’s advisers
Journalist Simon Schuster said that for his article in Time magazine, which caused a public response, he spoke only with current advisers to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Shuster said this in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda, Censor.NET reports.
"If you read the text carefully, it is not about former advisers, it is not about 'former employees' of the President's Office. We are talking about the current advisers to President Zelenskyy. The word "former" does not appear anywhere, in any sentence.
And speaking of which, Oleksii Arestovych has not worked in the Office of the President since the spring-summer of 2022. That was the last time we talked to him," the journalist said.
Schuster believes that people wanted to speak anonymously to draw attention to problems without putting themselves at risk. He also noted that he spent three weeks in Kyiv, meeting with a large number of people about various issues.
"I understand why people (sources -current advisers) wanted to speak anonymously to draw attention to issues without putting themselves at risk. And personal, professional, and legal," Shuster said.
And one of the topics that Shuster plans to write about is the difficulties of a counteroffensive and the need for a technological breakthrough for Ukraine. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valerii Zaluzhnyi, has already written 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 it came as a surprise to him.
"I needed to show how difficult the circumstances are. And I think that's what shocked people," Schuster said.
It should be recalled that the American magazine Time published an article about the problems faced by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the war, starting from the situation at the front and international support, and ending with the fight against corruption.
Referring to members of the president's circle, the author of the article, Simon Schuster, notes that after his last visit to the United States, Zelenskyy feels "furious".
Allegedly, in the second year of the war, Zelenskyy no longer retained "the usual brilliance of his optimism, his sense of humor, his tendency to enliven meetings in the military room with a joke or an obscene joke."
The author wrote that some of Zelenskyy's entourage are convinced that the president is "deceiving himself." "We don't have options. We are not going to win. But try to tell him that," an unnamed representative told the author of the article.
