Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who became Ukraine’s sixth president in 2019. He has served during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022.

Before entering politics, Zelenskyy worked in comedy and entertainment and co-founded the production company Kvartal 95. He starred in the television series Servant of the People, in which he played a fictional Ukrainian president. A political party with the same name was founded by Zelenskyy and associates in 2018.

In the supplied news coverage, Zelenskyy is central to discussion of the collapse of an energy ceasefire and renewed Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries. He said Ukraine was abandoning the ceasefire, which the article reports neither Russia nor Ukraine had agreed to. The coverage also describes strained relations between Kyiv and Washington and expressions of support for Ukraine from European leaders.