{"id":1487804,"date":"2022-05-22T21:45:17","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T01:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487804"},"modified":"2022-05-22T21:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T01:45:21","slug":"our-family-was-torn-apart-ukraines-first-lady-reveals-the-toll-war-has-taken-on-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/our-family-was-torn-apart-ukraines-first-lady-reveals-the-toll-war-has-taken-on-her\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Our Family Was Torn Apart\u2019: Ukraine\u2019s First Lady Reveals The Toll War Has Taken On Her"},"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\">32<\/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%2Four-family-was-torn-apart-ukraines-first-lady-reveals-the-toll-war-has-taken-on-her%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=1487804&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\/05\/GettyImages-1337648472.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In recent weeks Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska has seen so little of her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, that she joked about counting their recent joint interview as a \u201cdate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelenska <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/22\/olena-zelenska-ukraine-russia-war\/\">joined her husband<\/a> and the father of her two children for a rare joint appearance on Ukrainian television network ICTV \u2014 marking just the second time the two have been seen together in public since Russian occupation forces invaded Ukraine \u2014 and she said that since the war began, they have been communicating primarily by phone.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenska recalled waking up the morning that the war began \u2014 she heard \u201cweird noises\u201d and her husband was already up, dressing in another room. \u201cIt has started,\u201d was all he said \u2014 and she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JmQ3f0Y-P1A\">ICTV<\/a> that hearing the words out loud left her feeling \u201canxiety and stupor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur family was torn apart, as every other Ukrainian family,\u201d Zelenska said of the days and weeks that followed. \u201cHe lives at his job. We didn\u2019t see him at all for 2\u00bd months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some of their time apart may have been for their own protection, as Russian operatives were reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/i-am-target-number-one-zelensky-says-russia-hunting-him-wife-children\/\">hunting<\/a> the Ukrainian President in the early days of the conflict, hoping for an opportunity to take him out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to our information, the enemy marked me as the number one target. My family is the number two goal,\u201d Zelensky said in late February. \u201cThey want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the Head of State. We have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kyiv. \u2026 I am staying in the government quarter together with others.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While he remained in Kyiv, his wife and children were take away to an undisclosed location for safety.<\/p>\n<p>But when one of the ICTV hosts asked Zelenska whether she felt as though the war had \u201cbasically taken her husband away\u201d from her, she was quick to push back. \u201cNobody takes my husband away from me, not even the war,\u201d she insisted.<\/p>\n<p>Zelenska, 44, came to the world of politics from entertainment as her husband did. She was a screenwriter before becoming first lady, while Zelensky was a comedian and actor who even once played the role of president before taking the job in real life.<\/p>\n<p>The last time the Ukrainian First Lady was seen in public was on Mothers Day, when <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/first-lady-jill-biden-goes-to-ukraine-president-heads-to-golf-course\/\">she met with her American counterpart<\/a> First Lady Jill Biden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand what it takes for the U.S. First Lady to come here during a war when the military actions are taking place every day, where the air sirens are happening every day, even today,\u201d she said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent weeks Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska has seen so little of her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, that she joked about counting their recent joint interview as a \u201cdate.\u201dZelenska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":1487811,"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-1487804","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\/1487804","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=1487804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}