Volodymyr Zelensky will address French MPs at 3 p.m.

Volodymyr Zelensky, who will speak on Wednesday March 23 in front of French deputies and senators, is proving to be a great political communicator. “You have to remember, he is a former actor. He immediately knew how to embody this spirit of resistance, he surrounded himself with very good communication advisers, he has a sense of words and comparisons”explains Stéphanie Pérez, special correspondent in Odessa (Ukraine).

Generate empathy

Speaking to Westerners by videoconference is now a “exercise he masters”, continues the journalist. “Each time, he knows how to find the historical reference, he knows how to adapt to his audience”, adds Stéphanie Pérez, who recalls that the objective of the Ukrainian president is to “arouse the empathy of Western populations”.