When comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy played the Ukrainian president on a popular television show, few people would have guessed that one day Zelenskyy would run for the presidency in real life. But that was exactly what happened in 2019. Nearly three years after winning the race, he was faced with the largest invasion on European soil since World War II. Part of the World Leaders series, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine tells the story of the man who began his career as a comedian but later devoted himself to the serious business of fighting a war to keep his country an independent nation.