Volodymyr Zelenskyy

According to our information, the enemy, the Russians, have marked me as target number one, they've marked my family as target number two, they want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.

I called the leaders of 27 European countries today to ask them about allowing Ukraine to join NATO, but all of them are too afraid at this stage to basically -- to take on that kind of risk.

Dear world leaders, leaders of the free world. If you don't help us today with a strong and powerful response, war will come knocking at your door tomorrow.

According to our information, the enemy has marked me as target number one. My family is target number two. They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state.

You are the last chance. You are the only people who can stop this from happening.

Do Russians want war? I would very much like to answer this question, but the answer depends on you, the citizens of the Russian federation.

But if we are attacked, if someone attempts to take away our land, our freedom, our lives, the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves.

Today, I initiated a phone call with the president of the Russian Federation, the result with silence. Though, the silence should be in the Donbas.

This sounded like the speech of a man for whom the occupation or invasion of Ukraine was already a foregone conclusion.

Listen, your leadership has approved for nearly 200,000 forces to take a step across this border into the territory of another country.

There are over 2,000 kilometers of common border between us. Your army is along that border now. Almost 200,000 soldiers, thousands of military vehicles, your leadership approved for them to take a step further to the territory of another…

I consider Russia’s actions today to be a violation of Ukraine sovereignty and territorial integrity.

We are on our own land. We are not afraid of anything or anyone. We owe nothing to anyone. And we will not give anything to anyone.

A country that supports war for eight years cannot be talking about peace.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky calling on world leaders to issue sanctions.

President Zelenskyy, probably to the surprise of President Putin has stood up.

They are standing firm. They are not giving concessions to Putin.

We do not fear anything, and we will not cede anything.

They are cutting a deal or trying to cut deals or trying to offer carrots to Vladimir Putin to do something that he shouldn’t be doing and that the world should be united in saying he shouldn’t be doing.

Ukraine has every intention of joining NATO someday, a red line for the Kremlin.

We won't be intimidated by our enemies.

This is significant, because one of the speculations has been that Russia might try to essentially join Russia to Crimea by forming a land corridor.

They tell us February 16th will be the day of the attack. We will make this a day of unity.

They tell us February 16 will be the day of the attack. We will make this a day of unity.

I don’t think it’s as imminent as the Americans say, I don’t want to scare the Ukrainian people.