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Volodymyr Zelenskyy

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the President of Ukraine, having taken office in May 2019. A former comedian and television producer, he gained prominence through his role in the television series 'Servant of the People,' where he played a schoolteacher who unexpectedly becomes president. Zelenskyy ran for office as a political outsider, campaigning on anti-corruption and reform agendas. His leadership has been particularly noted during the ongoing conflict with Russia, where he has sought to rally international support for Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

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Aug 31, 2023

If Ukraine falls, Putin will surely go further. What will the United States of America do when Putin reaches the Baltic states? When he reaches the Polish border? He will.

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Jul 30, 2023

Ukraine is getting stronger. Gradually, the war is returning to the territory of Russia to its symbolic centers and military bases. This is an inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.

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Jul 4, 2023

An alarming claim from Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He warns that Russian troops have placed objects resembling explosives, in his words, on the roof of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

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Jun 24, 2023

Today the world saw that the bosses of Russia do not control anything. Nothing at all. Complete chaos.

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Jun 23, 2023

The man from the Kremlin is obviously very afraid and probably hiding somewhere, not showing himself. I am sure that he is no longer in Moscow.

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Jun 23, 2023

today the world saw that the bosses of Russia do not control anything. Nothing at all. Complete chaos. Complete absence of any predictability.

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May 29, 2023

The logistics are there, the weapons are there, the men are there, and that he has decided on a date.

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May 2, 2023

We don't attack Putin or Moscow. We fight on our territory. We are defending our villages and cities.

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Mar 22, 2023

President Zelenskyy says there are up to 15,000 children taken in those kind of camps.

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Mar 16, 2023

Separating children, from their families? Depriving them of any opportunity, to contact their relatives? Hiding children, in Russia, dispersing them, to remote regions? All this is obvious Russian state policy, state decisions, and state…

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Feb 23, 2023

A year into Russia's invasion of his country, Ukraine's President Zelenskyy today said his country could win the war this year as long as its allies remain united, in his words 'like a fist.'

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Feb 20, 2023

Thank you POTUS for rallying support around the world. Kyiv stands tall and Kyiv stands proud.

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Feb 2, 2023

We consider Bakhmut our fortress, he says. We consider our soldiers who have fallen here heroes. If we get accelerated weapons, especially long-range, we will not only gain ground around Bakhmut, but we will also begin to de-occupy Donbas.

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Jan 25, 2023

This evil can and should be stopped only with adequate weapons. Weapons on the battlefield. Weapons that protect our skies.

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Jan 18, 2023

The courage of our warriors and motivation of the Ukrainian people is not enough against thousands of tanks of the Russian Federation.

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Jan 17, 2023

Every death is the result of war even when it is far from the front lines.

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Jan 1, 2023

They're afraid, you can feel it, and their right to be afraid because they're losing.

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Dec 21, 2022

This is a fight for democracy. This is something that benefits the United States globally when democracies win over autocracies like Russia.

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Dec 21, 2022

We're not asking for donations. We're asking for an investment in your own future.

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Oct 23, 2022

Ukrainians should prepare themselves for the toughest winter yet.

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Oct 10, 2022

The leader of Russia feeling the approach of his end is trying to force the democratic world to surrender with a terrorist rush, to retreat, to lose. This can only be the desire of an insane person.

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