The interview irritated the president's office. Both men are popular - in fact Zaluzhnyi is consistently the only public figure to rival Zelenskiy in the opinion polls.
Zelenskiy's aides suspect that the general's charitable foundation could ultimately become a political platform making him a rival for the presidency, and viewed an increasing number of social media posts of Zaluzhnyi with his wife as projecting a would-be presidential vibe.
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