Video of the Ukrainian president Zelensky on Dancing with the Stars goes viral

A video from 2006 where the Ukrainian president Zelensky is seen dancing on a television program has gone viral.

The Ukrainian president appeared on his country’s version of Dancing with the Stars.

The video has resurfaced amid the war that Russia unleashed by invading Ukraine last Thursday.

Without a doubt, he is a multifaceted man. In the midst of the bloody Russian invasion, a 2006 video showing current Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, on the Ukrainian version of Dancing with the Stars has gone viral on social media. On Friday it will be more than a week sine the Russians invaded Ukraine.

In addition to his political career and remarkable leadership, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is drawing praise from many on social media for his show business roots, according to the New York Post on Tuesday, March 1.

Video of Ukrainian president dancing on TV goes viral

The compilation video showing the Ukrainian president demonstrating his agile footwork and his winning routines on his country’s version of Dancing with the Stars in 2006 went viral on Monday, reported the New York Post.

Users from Twitter to TikTok are fawning over the Ukrainian president’s moves. They are especially impressed the performance in which he and his partner, Olena Shoptenko, wear blindfolds as they manage to pull of their routine flawlessly just by counting steps.

President Zelensky is praised for his dance moves

Screenshot of video posted on Joel Thingvall’s YouTube channel

“I actually fainted tho,” commented one TikTok user on the post that shows a part of the video of the performance by the Ukrainian president Zelensky and Olena Shoptenko. The celebration of Zelensky’s dance moves came just days after British actor Hugh Bonneville, one of the stars of the Paddington franchise, revealed that the 44-year-old president was also the familiar voice behind the Peruvian Bear in the Ukrainian versions of Paddington and Paddington 2.

«Until today I had no idea who was doing the voice of @paddingtonbear in Ukraine. Speaking for myself, thank you, President Zelenskiy. #PaddingtonBear,” he wrote in a tweet, alongside a video of Zelensky. And the news has been confirmed by the film’s producer, StudioCanal, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The contrast between the actor/dancer and now Ukrainian president combatting Russia (click on the image)

Screenshot of video posted on Joel Thingvall’s YouTube channel

Last week Russia launched an attack on Ukraine, targeting its capital Kiev, in a move Russian authorities called a «special military operation.» Other images that are circulating on media show the founder of the Servant of the People political party on the front lines with many of his compatriots. This has earned him praise for being a «true leader.»

The AP news agency reported that when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was growing up in southeastern Ukraine, his Jewish family spoke Russian and his father once forbade him from going to Israel to study. Instead, Zelensky studied law in Ukraine and, after graduating, found his passion in acting and comedy. In 2010 he became one of the most popular artists in the country with the TV series Servant of the People. On that show, he played a charming high school teacher fed up with corrupt politicians who accidentally becomes president.