From comedian to Ukraine's wartime leader. Who is Volodymyr Zelenskyy?

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has used his own history to demonstrate that his is a country of possibility, not the hate-filled polity of Vladimir Putin’s imagination..

When Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in south-eastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade the younger Zelenskyy from going abroad to study in Israel. 

Instead, he studied law at home.