Iryna Vereshchuk, the Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister in the bunker: “I fight for my country, I feel like the mother of all the children who are in the shelters”

KIEV – “I have a 17-year-old son who I haven’t heard from for three days, but right now I’m the mother of all the children who need me.” Blonde, smiling and very tough. Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, 43, is the best-known face in Ukraine after that of Volodymyr Zelensky. Every morning she talks to her people about her, she explains, worries, telephones, sleeps two hours a night, doesn’t complain.