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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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Apr 12, 2022

Calling things by their names is essential to stand up to evil. We are grateful for U.S. assistance provided so far and we urgently need more heavy weapons to prevent further Russian atrocities.

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Apr 12, 2022

Zelenskyy directly said yes, we do actually need these helicopters.

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Apr 12, 2022

That is genocide. It`s sort of the textbook definition of it, if trying to sort of remake them into sort of forcible Russians.

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Apr 11, 2022

They also have blocked all of the sea ports together with the vessels that had already agricultural cargo for exports. Why are they doing this? Because, for them, hunger is also a weapon. A weapon against us, ordinary people, as an…

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Apr 11, 2022

They have to supply weapons to Ukraine, as if they were defending themselves and their own people.

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Apr 11, 2022

tens of thousands of civilians have been killed in Mariupol

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Apr 11, 2022

Buying Russian oil and gas you are financing the killings of Ukrainians act more decisively stop feeding the Russian military machine.

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Apr 10, 2022

All depends on how fast we will be helped by the United States. To be honest, whether we will be able to survive depends on this. I have 100 percent confidence in our people and in our armed forces. But, unfortunately, I don`t have the…

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Apr 10, 2022

I remember, all of us remember books about the Second World War and about the devil in uniform, Adolf Hitler. are those countries who did not participate in the war responsible, the countries who let German forces marched throughout…

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Apr 10, 2022

I have 100 percent confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but, unfortunately, I don't have the confidence that we will be receiving everything we need.

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Apr 10, 2022

We think this will be a new wave of this war. We don't know how much Russian weaponry there will be, but we understand there will be many times more than there is now. All depends on how fast we will be helped by the United States.

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Apr 8, 2022

We are defending the right to live. I never thought this right was so costly. These are human values. So that Russia doesn`t choose what we should do, and how I am using my rights. That wright was given to me by God and my parents.

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Apr 8, 2022

another war crime, and an evil that has no limits.

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Apr 8, 2022

it is energy exports that provide the alliance share of Russia`s profits, and allow the Russian leadership to believe in its impunity.

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Apr 8, 2022

if it is not punished, it will never stop.

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Apr 7, 2022

We are defending the right to live. I never thought this right was so costly.

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Apr 7, 2022

Why do they need this war against Ukraine? Why do they need to hit civilians with missiles? Why this cruelty that the world has witnessed in Bucha and other cities liberated by Ukrainian Army?

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Apr 6, 2022

After Bucha, this is already obvious, and the work on dismantling the debris in Borodianka has begun. It's much worse there, even more victims of the Russian occupiers.

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Apr 6, 2022

Russia is using this hunger weapon, the worst thing is the city of Mariupol, there is half a million habitants in the city. It was put on besieged, they have blocked the access from the soil, from the sea, they are blocking the…

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Apr 6, 2022

some politicians are still struggling with deciding how to stop the flow of oil dollars and oil euros to Russia in a way that does not put their own economies under attack. But that is why people go into politics, to solve such difficult…

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Apr 5, 2022

Anyone who was given criminal orders and carried out them by killing our people will be brought before the tribunal, which is similar to the Nuremberg tribunal.

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Apr 5, 2022

You are the leader of a great nation. I wish you to be the leader of the world.

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Apr 5, 2022

The massacre in our city of Bucha is only one, unfortunately, only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for the past 41 days.

msnbc.com
Apr 5, 2022

We are dealing with a state that is turning the veto into the U.N. Security Council into the right to die. This undermines the whole architecture of global security.

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Apr 5, 2022

I need ammunition, not a ride.

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