The Economist.
Hello, and welcome to the Intelligence from the Economist.
I'm your host, Rosie Blore.
Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.
Defiance has many faces.
One of them will be on show tonight in Odessa, Ukraine,
when an orchestra will perform a show entitled Ode to Resistance.
And then we step back in time to March 1945 to see how the Economist was reporting
on the last year of the Second World War.
The Allies were finally on the offensive in Europe
and things were starting to look a little more optimistic.
But first, being a president of any country comes with challenges.
But one leader has had a particularly tough week.
Last Friday at the White House, Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky received a verbal battering.
You're right now not in a very good position.
You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.
And he happens to be right about it from the very beginning.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump cut off his military support and intelligence aid.
The US is pausing intelligence sharing with Ukraine.
The Trump administration had already.