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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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Mar 8, 2022

They want us to feel like animals, because they blocked our cities, the biggest cities in Ukraine and they blocked and because they don’t want our people to get some food, water.

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Mar 8, 2022

If you don't close the skies, you will also be responsible for this catastrophe.

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Mar 8, 2022

We’ve asked you a million times to close the sky.

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Mar 8, 2022

We will not give up. And we will not lose. We will fight till the end at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost.

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Mar 8, 2022

We will have to conduct this war. We do not want to lose what we have what is ours, our country Ukraine. Just the same way as you once didn`t want to lose your country where Nazis started to fight your country. We`ll not give up and we…

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Mar 7, 2022

We will not give up and we will not lose. We will fight until the end at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land whatever the cost.

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Mar 7, 2022

Our main goal is to finish this slaughter. The enemy losses are very grave.

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Mar 7, 2022

Every square of today, no matter what it's called, is going to be called, as today, Freedom Square, in every city of our country. Nobody is going to break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians.

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Mar 7, 2022

I will be there for as long as it takes to win this war.

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Mar 7, 2022

Speaking today, in the British Parliament, I mentioned other difficult times. Other, yet similar. 1940, when tyranny threatened what it considered a small island.

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Mar 7, 2022

What is needed is a boycott of Russian experts, in particular the rejection of oil and oil products of Russia. It can be called an embargo or just morality, when you refuse to give money to terrorists. Boycott imports to Russia. If they…

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Mar 7, 2022

I just want you to feel and to understand, what does it mean, for us, freedom? Because, always, American people, they speak about freedom, and they -- and they know what it is. And now, when you`re looking at Ukrainians, I think you feel…

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Mar 7, 2022

We will fight till the end, at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost.

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Mar 7, 2022

Doing so, he said, would amount to a war crime.

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Mar 7, 2022

Not hiding and not afraid of anyone.

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Mar 7, 2022

If you see and if you understand how we feel like how we fight against all the enemies for our freedom, support us, support, and not only with words with kradic direct steps, do it and I think we’ll win, of course, together with all the…

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Mar 7, 2022

How many families have died like this in Ukraine? We won’t forgive.

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Mar 6, 2022

We are all fighting. We are all contributing to our victory, which will surely happen.

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Mar 6, 2022

We will not give up, and we will not lose. We will fight until the end at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets.

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Mar 6, 2022

I am not hiding and I won’t hide for as long as it takes to win this war.

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Mar 6, 2022

What needs to be done is for President Putin to stop talking, start the dialogue, instead of living in the informational bubble without oxygen.

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Mar 5, 2022

It seems it is not enough for the Russian troops, not enough ruins destinies, crippled lives. They want to kill more.

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