Volodymyr Zelensky refused to leave Kyiv as Russian assassination squads entered capital

VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY held the ground and refused to be evacuated from Kyiv as Russian hitmen parachuted into the capital and entered a building to kill him, a news report has claimed.
According to an account of the crisis given by presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovych, Mr Zelensky was urged to leave and go to a secure facility away from Kyiv. The Ukrainian president also made a secret visit to the front line, according to the account.

Both British and US forces offered to evacuate Mr Zelensky and allow him to set up a government in exile, probably in Poland, but he never seriously thought about it.