Volodymyr Zelenskyy

President — Ukraine

Country momentum +4 — Quarterly momentum: the Bureau's read on the country's trajectory over the last quarter, from −10 (deteriorating fast) to +10 (accelerating).

• Kept a state alive and fighting into the war's fifth year — the decade's defining leadership performance.
• The Odessa blockade threatens 10% of GDP; the EBRD cut 2026 growth to 1.5% — the economy is the war's hostage.
• Europe's largest mobilisation since 1945; the July 2026 purge showed anti-corruption still works under fire.
• The honest debit: the war's human cost — a generation displaced, the young mobilised, with no end in sight.