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This is the Times daily podcast dedicated to global security today with me, Alex Dibble and James Hansen.
As the year draws to a close, we're bringing you a series of episodes that analyze 2024 from a security perspective and from the perspective of individual world leaders.
Yesterday we discussed what the past year has meant for Vladimir Putin.
Today we're looking at Volodymyr Zelensky landscape.
It's been another eventful year for the Ukrainian president.
He's had to contend with manpower shortages, delays to Western military aid and territorial losses in the East.
But he's also launched an audacious incursion into Russian territory and shuffled his military leadership.
Our guest today is the Times correspondent Maxim Tucker, who's been covering the war in Ukraine since the start.
Maxim, has Zelenskyy's year been good, bad, or somewhere in between?
I think it's been a difficult year for Zelenskyy.
We've seen the optimism of last year gradually start to fade away.
This realization that despite the enormous casualties that Ukraine has been able to inflict on the Russian forces, that Russia is still going and still creeping forward, and it's still using many of the same kind of a trite and advanced tactics they were using this time last year.
And Ukraine, despite having almost all the armaments now that it's been asking for and the ability to use them in the way that it wants to, is still not able to hold the Russians at bay.
And that's largely because of the delays in providing that ammunition and armaments and the restrictions on Ukraine using them that have caused Ukraine also to suffer a lot more casualties than it needed to.
And Ukraine now really running low on manpower in other regards.
Politically, it's been quite a good year for Zelenskyy because he's been able to consolidate his power inside the government.
He's dismissed a lot cabinet ministers and replace them with people that are loyal to his chief of staff, Andre Yermak.
And he's got more power, I'd say, than perhaps any president since independence in Ukraine.