Article 6182J ‘Jokes are strategic’: how Mykolaiv’s leader uses humour to resist Putin

‘Jokes are strategic’: how Mykolaiv’s leader uses humour to resist Putin

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Lorenzo Tondo in Mykolaiv
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Vitaliy Kim, taekwondo-practising governor of Mykolaiv region, is famous for making anti-Russian gags on his social media channels, but deadly serious about defeating his foe in the Kremlin

When Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine on 24 February, Vitaliy Kim was still in bed sound asleep.

I was dreaming something, but can't remember what, and when I woke up, everybody was panicking," said Kim, 41, governor of the industrial region of Mykolaiv. It was frightening. People were asking me what to do now."

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