Your dose of heart-warming news this Monday morning comes with a side of wholesomeness because President Volodymyr Zelensky voiced Ukraine's Paddington & we can't quite believe it 🥺️
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The leader – who has remained alongside his people in the capital to fight against the Russian invasion, posting defiant videos from the streets – was a comedian and actor and even appeared on the country’s version of Strictly before he moved into politics.
(Yes, really!)
(Yes, really!)
We can only imagine Ukrainian film fans are all across Zelensky’s role as the sparky bear, but the rest of us are just making that solid, and totally game-changing realisation today 🐻 
That was helped along yesterday by Bonneville (@hughbon) – who played Henry Brown in the classic film – who wrote on Twitter: ‘Until today I had no idea who provided the voice of @paddingtonbear in Ukraine.'
The reactions were *so* wholesome, with Sam Freedman writing:
‘With Strictly and voicing Paddington on his CV the only way Zelensky could appeal to middle Britain more would be if it turned out he played Superintendent Hastings in the Ukrainian version of Line of Duty.’
‘With Strictly and voicing Paddington on his CV the only way Zelensky could appeal to middle Britain more would be if it turned out he played Superintendent Hastings in the Ukrainian version of Line of Duty.’
For the full story - and more on the leader's varied career and life before politics - here's the full story 👇
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