<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told CNN anchor Jake Tapper that he does not expect to be remembered as a hero.</p>
<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&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; Zelensky spoke with Tapper in Lviv, Ukraine, about a wide range of topics — 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>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">TAPPER: &quot;How do you want the Ukrainian people to remember you? How do you want your son and daughter to remember you?&quot; </p>
<p>ZELENSKY: &quot;A human being that loved life to the fullest. And loved his family and loved his motherland. Definitely not a hero&#8230; A regular human.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CNNSOTU?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CNNSOTU</a> <a href="https://t.co/E5bNdBLBwI">pic.twitter.com/E5bNdBLBwI</a></p>
<p>&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1515688106053316612?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2022</a></p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;There is a chance that you will not survive this war,&#8221; Tapper said, addressing the elephant in the room directly. &#8220;The Russians have made it clear that they consider you a Nazi &#8230; etc &#8230; all that nonsense.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;How do you want the Ukrainian people to remember you? How do you want your son and daughter to remember you?&#8221; Tapper asked.</p>
<p>The Ukrainian actor and comedian-turned president made it clear that notoriety was not his goal. &#8220;A human being that loved life to the fullest. And loved his family and loved his motherland. Definitely not a hero,&#8221; he answered with the help of a translator.</p>
<p>&#8220;I want people to take me as I am: a regular human,&#8221; Zelensky concluded.</p>
<p>Despite Zelensky&#8217;s stated wishes, many have already held the Ukrainian leader up as a hero of sorts, noting that he — with the help of his intelligence officers and his security forces — has already foiled several assassination attempts.</p>
<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>
<blockquote><p><em>An assassination attempt on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was foiled and a Russian hit squad was “destroyed” after Ukrainians were tipped off by Russian spies, a Ukrainian official said Tuesday on Ukrainian television.</em></p>
<p><em>Secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Oleksiy Danilov said “that 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),” National Review <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/ukrainian-defense-head-attempt-on-zelenskys-life-foiled/">reported</a>.</em></p>
<p><em>“I can say that we received information from representatives of the FSB, who today have no desire to take part in this bloody war,” Danilov said.</em></p></blockquote>
<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 &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher&#8221; that Zelensky was proving that people loved — and needed — examples of &#8220;grown-a** men.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;“It’s not always a great advantage being a man, and toxic though we may be, we do sometimes come in handy,&#8221; Maher said. &#8220;He can’t share right now; he’s killing Russians. Turns out after 200,000 years there’s still a lot of ‘another tribe is coming to kill us.’ And when that happens, you want a little ‘big d**k energy.'&#8221;</p>
<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>
<p>&#8220;Zelensky is not just listening, he’s fixing the problem,&#8221; he said.</p>

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