NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� A collection of featuring an introduction written by the Ukrainian president, will be published Dec. 6.
Crown, a Penguin Random House division, announced Monday that the book will be called 鈥淎 Message from Ukraine鈥� and will also include a preface by Arkady Ostrovsky, the Economist's editor for Russia and Eastern Europe .
鈥淪upporting Ukraine is not a trend, a meme or a viral challenge," Zelenskyy said in a statement released by Crown. 鈥淚t is not a force to rapidly spread across the planet and then just as rapidly disappear. If you want to understand who we are, where we are from, what we want and where we are going, you need to learn more about who we are. This book will help you do just that.鈥�
The proceeds will go to Zelenskyy launched to coordinate charitable donations to Ukraine. Zelenskyy added that he has chosen 16 speeches that he hopes will help readers 鈥渦nderstand Ukrainians: our aspirations, our principles, and our values.鈥�
The was elected in 2019. He found himself suddenly transformed into a wartime leader after Russia's invasion in February, with his impassioned and defiant stance bringing comparisons to Winston Churchill among others.
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