Journalist describes procedure for checking visitors to Zelenskyy's office
In order to get an audience with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, everyone must undergo several stages of security control in the President’s Office, including documents verification, a metal detector and a thermal imager.
Source: a journalist from the German media outlet Spiegel with his colleague from the French media outlet Le Figaro, who interviewed Zelenskyy before his visits to London, Paris and Brussels
Quote: "Everyone who wants to get in here but who is not a staff member must send their ID card for verification in advance and then go through several checkpoints.
Thermal imagers and vigilant men with headsets are waiting for you on the third floor. Visitors have to hand over wristwatches, cell phones, and even pens they brought with them.
At the beginning of the war, Zelenskyy was giving interviews while sitting between sacks of sand. Now he is accepting visitors in a golden hall with inlaid parquet and silk wallpaper."
Details: On their way to the reception room of the President of Ukraine, before the security check on the third floor, the journalists met Kyrylo Budanov, Head of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine. He was also being screened with a metal detector.
After the interview, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was waiting at the gate, and he had an appointment with Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy himself, as the journalists noted, looked exhausted and worried.
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