the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky informs every day of the news of the invasion of russia from his office Kyiv. It has even been recorded, mobile in hand, showing that he is in the capital of the country leading the fight against the Kremlin in the face of rumors that he had left the country. Zelensky explains in detail the attacks and bombing the Russian army, who wants to cause the uncertainty of death at every moment. She does it knowingly: on the ground she has her right-hand man and deputy prime minister, Iryna Vereshchuk, already considered a symbol of ukrainian resistance.
Since the start of warthe 43-year-old politician is in charge of negotiating the humanitarian corridors with Russia. In addition, his appearances in the media are intended to explain ‘in situ’ how the escape routes of the civilian population take place. Along these lines, in recent days it has been in Mariupolone of the most devastated cities and where Russian troops have repeatedly breached the humanitarian pact between the two countries.
Zelensky appointed Vereshchuk deputy minister last November. In addition, he also gave him the wallet of the Ministry of Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territorieswhich include the conflictive self-proclaimed russian republics from Donestk and Luhansk, at donbas.
You don’t know how your son is
In addition to having the responsibility for the evacuation of civilians on their shoulders, politics coexists with complicated family situation: her husband is in the front line and she lives isolated and far from her 17-year-old son. She hasn’t heard from him for three days. This is how she explained it herself in an interview that she granted yesterday to the Italian newspaper ‘The Republic‘. Now, she tells her, she is “the mother of all Ukrainian children.”
From parliament to living in a bunker
Before devoting himself to politics, he trained at a military school and studied law. From August 2019 and until she was appointed deputy prime minister, Vereshchuk was a deputy in the ukrainian parliament. Of the suits and the offices of the Verkhovna Rada, in three months he has moved in with a helmet and bulletproof vest in bombed cities.
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He lives in a bunker, sleeps two hours a night and works the rest of the time. She also confesses that she no longer differentiates when it is day and when it is night. But she doesn’t care “When at the end of each day I read the official reports with 30,000 or 60,000 evacuations, then believe me, I’m a happy woman. I live for that, to save my people,” she said in the interview granted.
Her continuous appearances in dangerous war scenes reminiscent of those of the Second World War have made her the best-known face in Ukraine after Zelensky.