{"id":1442561,"date":"2022-04-17T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442561"},"modified":"2022-04-17T13:44:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T17:44:41","slug":"definitely-not-a-hero-ukraines-zelensky-says-he-just-wants-to-be-remembered-as-a-man-who-loved-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/definitely-not-a-hero-ukraines-zelensky-says-he-just-wants-to-be-remembered-as-a-man-who-loved-life\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Definitely Not A Hero\u2019: Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky Says He Just Wants To Be Remembered As A Man Who \u2018Loved Life\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdefinitely-not-a-hero-ukraines-zelensky-says-he-just-wants-to-be-remembered-as-a-man-who-loved-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1442561&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1239741353.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he does not expect to be remembered as a hero.<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/we-dont-believe-the-words-zelensky-says-ukraine-cant-trust-world-leaders-who-say-never-again-to-genocide\/\">interview<\/a> that aired on Sunday\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Zelensky spoke with Tapper in Lviv, Ukraine, about a wide range of topics \u2014 including the possibility that he <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-am-target-number-one-zelensky-says-russia-hunting-him-wife-children\/\">might not survive<\/a> the ongoing war with Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TAPPER: &#8220;How do you want the Ukrainian people to remember you? How do you want your son and daughter to remember you?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>ZELENSKY: &#8220;A human being that loved life to the fullest. And loved his family and loved his motherland. Definitely not a hero\u2026 A regular human.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CNNSOTU?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CNNSOTU<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/E5bNdBLBwI\">pic.twitter.com\/E5bNdBLBwI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 State of the Union (@CNNSotu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CNNSotu\/status\/1515688106053316612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 17, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere is a chance that you will not survive this war,\u201d Tapper said, addressing the elephant in the room directly. \u201cThe Russians have made it clear that they consider you a Nazi \u2026 etc \u2026 all that nonsense.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow do you want the Ukrainian people to remember you? How do you want your son and daughter to remember you?\u201d Tapper asked.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian actor and comedian-turned president made it clear that notoriety was not his goal. \u201cA human being that loved life to the fullest. And loved his family and loved his motherland. Definitely not a hero,\u201d he answered with the help of a translator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to take me as I am: a regular human,\u201d Zelensky concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Zelensky\u2019s stated wishes, many have already held the Ukrainian leader up as a hero of sorts, noting that he \u2014 with the help of his intelligence officers and his security forces \u2014 has already foiled several assassination attempts.<\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/assassination-attempt-on-zelensky-foiled-after-tip-off-from-russian-spies-ukrainian-official-claims\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>An assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was foiled and a Russian hit squad was \u201cdestroyed\u201d after Ukrainians were tipped off by Russian spies, a Ukrainian official said Tuesday on Ukrainian television.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Secretary of Ukraine\u2019s National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said \u201cthat his country received information about a planned assassination attempt on President Volodymyr Zelensky from agents of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (FSB),\u201d National Review <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/ukrainian-defense-head-attempt-on-zelenskys-life-foiled\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI can say that we received information from representatives of the FSB, who today have no desire to take part in this bloody war,\u201d Danilov said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Comedian Bill Maher <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/badaery-is-sexy-bill-maher-says-ukraine-crisis-proves-the-world-still-needs-grown-a-men\/\">even noted in a recent episode<\/a> of his HBO show \u201cReal Time with Bill Maher\u201d that Zelensky was proving that people loved \u2014 and needed \u2014 examples of \u201cgrown-a** men.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cIt\u2019s not always a great advantage being a man, and toxic though we may be, we do sometimes come in handy,\u201d Maher said. \u201cHe can\u2019t share right now; he\u2019s killing Russians. Turns out after 200,000 years there\u2019s still a lot of \u2018another tribe is coming to kill us.\u2019 And when that happens, you want a little \u2018big d**k energy.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Maher went on to say that while the experts might all claim that women wanted men who were sensitive and good listeners, there was certainly a need for men who were willing to seek out what needed fixing and take care of it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZelensky is not just listening, he\u2019s fixing the problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he does not expect to be remembered as a hero.During an interview that aired on Sunday\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1443816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1442561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1442561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1442561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1443816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1442561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1442561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1442561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}