It was disappointing, in the end, how President Volodymyr Zelensky responded to Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk’s offer to resign after leaked audio recordings of a meeting with top advisers. The audiotapes revealed disparaging remarks about the president’s lack of understanding about the economy.

Honcharuk did nothing wrong – he was taped, and leaked from, a private meeting with his economic team. They were jamming, as everyone does in these kinds of meetings, and some honest things were said. Neither Zelensky nor Honcharuk are trained economists – Zelensky knew that when he hired Honcharuk. Honcharuk just stated the obvious and the fair comment was how does the economy team explain complex issues to lay people, in economics at least, like Zelensky.