I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip. pic.twitter.com/1XvBYWlMxg

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) March 2, 2022

Our family began watching this series on Netflix. Servant of the People (Слуга народу in Ukrainian) stars Volodymyr Zelenskyy who plays Vasily Petrovych Goloborodko, a high school history teacher who gets somewhat-unexpectedly elected as president of Ukraine. This scene, though — who could have known? Well, the series came out in 2015 and ran until 2019 — Crimea had already been annexed and Russia was already in the Donbas region, so probably the answer to “Who could have known?” is “Well, anyone with common sense…”