Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska are pictured days before the Russian invasion during an event to honor the memory of the activists who died in 2014 during the Revolution of Dignity on the Day of the Heroes of the H KYIV, Ukraine - The first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, said she hasn’t seen her husband President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in over a month due to the danger presented by Russia’s war on the country.
Zelenska, who shares two children with the Ukrainian president, told CNN in an interview published on Wednesday that the family has had to separate since the Russian invasion, which first occurred on Feb.
24. "Volodymyr and his team actually live in the President's office," Zelenska told the news outlet. "Due to the danger, my children and I were forbidden to stay there.
So, for more than a month we communicate only by phone."Both have stayed in Ukraine since the war began, with Zelenskyy having turned down an American offer to evacuate — saying, "The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride."In a "60 Minutes" interview that was broadcast on April 9, Zelenskyy said he and his staff had been at the command center in Ukraine's capital of Kyiv since the start of the invasion. "When everyone is telling you, you need to go, you need to think.