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Time features First Lady Olena Zelenska on its cover.

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She's the fourth Ukrainian to be featured on the cover of Time magazine after her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Kyiv Independent Editor-in-Chief Olga Rudenko, and aviation pioneer Igor Sikorsky. Titled "Ukraine's First Lady Olena Zelenska takes on the trauma of war," the front-page article addresses the "overwhelming" mental toll of Russia's war against Ukraine.

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The Kyiv Independent’s Oleksiy Sorokin sits down with Daria Kaleniuk, executive director of Ukraine’s Anti-Corruption Action Center, to discuss Ukraine’s biggest wartime corruption scandal, which involves people from President Volodymyr Zelensky's circle and several government officials.

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