My three favourite Ukrainians are:

1. No-longer-comedian Volodomyr Zelenskiy.

2. Non-Ukrainian-born, non-penguin Andrei Kurkov.

3. Ukrainian-born poet Yunna Petrovna Morits, who, like Kurkov, writes in Russian and who may identify as Non-Ukrainian.*

* Living in Moscow, Yunna Morits has written poems in favour of the war against her homeland.