Olga Rudenko

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The New Yorker Radio Hour · How Donald Trump’s War on Iran Helps Vladimir Putin’s War on Ukraine · 3 Apr 2026 podcast

I think there's a lot of similarities.

There's a lot of similarities there, yes.

Well, I think, David, if you ask President Zelensky what he thinks about independent press, whether he believes that it deserves to be a central part of a democracy, I think he would say yes.

And I think he wouldn't be lying.

I think he actually believes that.

But when it comes to executing that, I think for him it's more like

I believe in free press in theory, but I don't want it to touch me.

I should be untouchable for that.

I should be untouchable to independent press because I'm doing an important job here.

And you guys are running around asking your questions and interfering with me.

It's been nasty a few times.

And that was even before the war.

So then when you add to it everything that happened after 2022 and the heroic, as you said, treatment that he has been getting from the whole world for him being the leader of the resilient Ukraine, when you add that component, it makes a person naturally even more

less welcoming of any criticism.

So if you would have to guess how many interviews Zelensky has given to independent press in Ukraine since 2022, it's zero.

Zero interviews to independent Ukrainian journalists since the start of the war.

Four years.

There has been a handful of press conferences where journalists were allowed to ask questions, but some independent outlets were banned from press conferences or from briefings with his administration.

And with us, well, there were situations when, for example, our journalist a couple years ago asked him,

question at a press conference, a question that was very important at the time about the quality of fortifications that were being built near the front lines.

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