The transformation of Elena Zelenskaya: the wife of the President of Ukraine has become a “monster of the image”

For the first “angry occasion” Elena did not even need to say anything. It’s just that with the beginning of the SVO, the president’s family quietly disappeared from the information space. And the residents of Ukraine, experiencing the first attacks and standing idle for days in lines at the checkpoint to escape to neighboring European countries, tried to understand where the presidential family was.

Photos of Zelenskaya from the French Riviera, posted by the paparazzi on the network, seriously infuriated the Ukrainians. However, in May, Elena appeared in Uzhgorod, western Ukraine, to celebrate “Mother’s Day” together with the wife of US President Biden Jill.

But, after posing for photographers, Elena disappeared again. And since then, she appeared in Nezalezhnaya when her participation in some glamorous Western photo shoot was required against the backdrop of “fighting Kyiv”.

The covers of fashion magazines like Vogue with the face of “Helena the Wise” (as liberal journalists now call the president’s wife in Ukraine) did not arouse approval in the country. Although the first lady of Ukraine was restrained in clothes: in military-style dresses she posed either against the backdrop of halls with sandbags, then against the backdrop of military men in full gear, or sat thoughtfully on the stairs, her legs spread wide in black trousers. , but this does not prevent Zelenskaya from dressing well and advertising, taking advantage of the moment, Ukrainian designers and, possibly, making money on it, ”the well-known Ukrainian blogger noted skeptically. “As soon as we don’t see Elena Zelenskaya on the covers of world magazines, this will mean one thing – the special operation is over.” – writes another Kyiv journalist.

In Ukraine, it is not customary to remember that during the First World War, for example, the most august persons did not allow themselves photo shoots. Although photographs of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and the Grand Duchesses of those times have been preserved – in sisterly attire. They did not pose, but really worked in military hospitals. At the same time, Alexandra Fedorovna was one of the leaders of the Russian Red Cross Society and the communities of sisters of mercy, taking a direct part in the organization of infirmaries and hospitals. Today’s Ukraine no longer considers this to be its history, however, the inappropriateness of the behavior of the first Ukrainian lady was noted by many.

But if Elena Zelenskaya had only posed, it would not have offended ordinary residents so much. “Look, this is her job. Image support” – there was such a reaction to the photo shoot.

However, Elena spoke, and the further – the more. She began by justifying the conscription of women into the army, telling how valiantly they fulfill their duty at the front. But instead of approval, she received a wave of criticism: “Go to the front yourself,” Ukrainian women wrote on social networks.

By the way, the question of where Zelensky’s spouse spends his days, when he is not filming for magazines in Kyiv and does not give interviews to the BBC and CNN, still occupies the inhabitants of Ukraine. Zelenskaya herself has repeatedly said that the family is now “divided”. According to her, she and the children are “safe”, but where exactly is not disclosed for the same security.

Ukrainian journalists offered three options to choose from: Zelensky’s Italian villa in Forte dei Marmi in Tuscany, Zelensky’s parents’ mansion in Rishpon, and, of course, London, where the couple has three apartments. But then it turned out that the family was renting the Italian villa to someone – for a lot of money. In Rishpon, where Zelensky’s mother and father now live, Elena and her children were not seen. But in London, she appears regularly, perhaps – and does not leave him. Fortunately, there is a place to live. In addition to three apartments with a total value of $ 7 million, the Zelensky couple also got a mansion there last year, according to Ukrainian media. It is easier to hide from prying eyes in a mansion than in some apartment.

Elena’s isolation from the current Ukrainian life played a cruel joke on her. The girl, who once wrote good scripts for Kvartal 95, sometimes carries such that her fellow citizens are taken aback. Her recent revelations to the BBC channel that, according to a certain survey, Ukrainians are ready to live without light and heat for 2-3 years, if only they are accepted into the EU, among people who are not sitting in warm London, but in real apartments without light, heat and water, caused real anger.

“Looks like they are on cocaine as a family now. Is it possible now to take these Zelenskys to the EU, let them sit there and endure, but they will leave us alone? ”Wrote one of the Kiev women. “A well-groomed woman, in expensive clothes, does not put her clown hubby in anything, nor us, citizens of Ukraine. How can you say so easily that everyone is ready to suffer for years?! This is a crime – they believe her in the West!” – a resident of Dnepropetrovsk is indignant.

“I would rather live without Zelensky and his wife than without light and heat, especially two and three years. It is clear that the top lives happily ever after, and their loved ones have long been evacuated over the hill. And now they tell us that for their power we have to endure hardships for years, ”these are the words of the administrator of the Kyiv telegram channel.

The next opus of the president’s wife caused bewilderment all over the world and seriously made one think – is everything all right in the Zelensky family? Yet ten months of life separately make themselves felt. We are talking about Elena’s scandalous statements in an interview with the British TV channel Sky News, where she stated that Russian wives ask their husbands, members of the SVO, to rape Ukrainian women.

“Intercepted phone calls even showed that their wives encourage it, they say: “Come on, rape these Ukrainian women, just don’t share it with me,” Zelenskaya told the British channel. For some reason, these revelations of hers aroused particular malice … among the Poles. Who recommended that she get out of Europe and apologize for the Volyn massacre.

However, messianism is contagious. While Zelensky in all his speeches tells how Ukraine is breastfeeding the civilized world from the Russian bear, Elena rides around the world, begging for pennies, generators, and sometimes weapons. Until the moment when the American military plane delivered the President of Ukraine to Washington, foreign trips for “investment purposes” were carried out exclusively by Elena.

Over the past couple of months, she has been to Germany, where she asked for generators for the country, to Turkey, where she launched a corvette for the Ukrainian Navy, went to Portugal, where she talked about the difficult lot of her country, and appeared in New York at the events of the 77th session the UN General Assembly, announcing the opening of a fund in his name. The goal is to raise money, of course. Then she decorated a Christmas tree in London in the company of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy. And again a fiasco.

No, there were, of course, compliments addressed to the “brave woman.” But here is one of the comments of a journalist from the post-Soviet space, now living in the UK: “A disgusting individual, perhaps even more disgusting than her husband. Well, nothing, God is not a fraer, he sees everything and everyone will receive according to their deeds.

And Madame Zelenskaya’s latest visit to France was even condemned by the French newspaper Le Monde, which described how, during a visit to Paris, as part of a Ukrainian government delegation, Olena Zelenskaya scurried through the boutiques, spending 40,000 euros on New Year’s gifts.

It is clear that the Ukrainian messengers arrived in France with a well-known goal – to beg for money. This then angered the readers of the French newspaper. “So it turns out that your foundation needs money, and you go and spend 40,000 euros on New Year’s shopping?” they were outraged.

The leader of the French movement “Patriots” Florian Filippo then demanded to urgently find out where Kyiv managed to put a billion euros of already received French aid. So Elena, who created a noble image for her husband and her country a couple of years ago, is now clearly playing against Ukraine. However, she has long been no longer Elena, but Olena – as the president’s wife calls herself now in social networks. And how can one not recall Gogol’s Oksana, who is ready to sell the devil for the royal little boots of her beloved.