Thanks for sharing this @garethb2, seeing Volodymyr Zelenskyy tell this joke made my day that much brighter from getting the chance to share a laugh:
Two Jewish guys from Odesa meet up.
One is asking the other: “So, what’s the situation? What are people saying?”
And he goes, "what are people saying? They are saying it’s a war. What kind kind of war? Russia is fighting NATO.
“Are you serious?”
“Yes! Russia is fighting NATO.”
“So? How’s it going?”
“What do you mean, how is it going? Seventy thousand Russian soldiers are dead. Missile stockpile has been almost depleted. A lot of equipment is damaged, blown up. That’s the situation.”
“What about NATO?”
“What about NATO? NATO hasn’t even arrived yet!”
Then there is this quote that shows the Ukrainian people are forged from a harder spirit than the hammer and sickle from which they declared their independence in 1991:
Letterman: Are you tired of this as your daily life? Are the people of Ukraine tired of this as their daily life?
Zelenskyy: One thing that the president of the Russian Federation failed to calculate correctly is that the more they strike against us, attacking our integrity and our dignity, thus attacking unfairly… The more they attack us, the more people want to come out of this with dignity and to come out of this victorious. That’s why when we did a survey, it showed that 98% of our country’s population today would rather stay without electricity and water as long as they are free from Russia. Russia holds control over famine, electricity, and water supplies. I think if you’re not God, and you do this, then who are you? A barbarian. The Kremlin officials should make their minds up about who they are. Whether they are barbarians or just insane. Unfortunately, none of that works for Ukraine.
