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Volodymyr Zelensky

Wednesday 21st of January 2026

Freedom Freedom is not about having unshackled hands.  Freedom is about having unshackled minds. Volodymyr Zelensky © 2023 Kwiple.com
Profiles in courage The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride. Volodymyr Zelensky's response to an offer by the US to evacuate him and his family from Kyiv after Russia invaded Ukraine with overwhelming force on February 24, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Do prove that you are with us. Do prove that you will not let us go. Do prove that you are indeed Europeans, and that life will win over death, and light will win over darkness.  Volodymyr Zelensky, speech to European Parliament, March 1, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine  Do you still believe that we are one people? Do you still think that you can frighten, crush, and bend us into submission? You really understand nothing? You don't realize who we are? What we stand for? What we are about? Read my lips:  Without gas or without you? Without you. Without light or without you? Without you.  Without water or without you? Without you. Without food or without you? Without you. Volodymyr Zelensky, address to the Russian people after Russia  began its campaign to freeze Ukrainians to death by destroying their energy infrastructure © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Financial assistance is also critically important, and I would like to thank you, thank you very much, thank you for both financial packages you have already provided us with and the ones you may be willing to decide on. Your money is not charity. It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. Volodymyr Zelensky, December 21, 2022, speech to Joint Session of Congresss © 2022 Kwiple.com
Ukraine From now on, every history textbook will have a new section, “When Ukraine united the world”. When democracy grew teeth again. When tyranny received an answer in the language it understands. Volodymyr Zelensky, August 24, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine Good morning, everyone. We are all here. Our soldiers are here. Civil society is here. We defend our independence. And this is how it will always be from now on. Volodymyr Zelensky, surrounded by government officials outside a government building in Kyiv, in a video message to the nation 38 hours after Russia's invasion began at 4:30 a.m. on February 24, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine History is unfair. We are not the ones who started this war. But we are the ones who must finish it. And we are ready for dialogue to do so. Volodymyr Zelensky, May 20, 2019, five years after Russia "annexed" Crimea and invaded Donbas and three years before deciding that victory is more useful than dialog with people who want you dead  © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine I need ammo, not a ride. Volodymyr Zelensky, rejecting American offers to airlift him out of Ukraine following Russia's invasion © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine This is not merely Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It is the beginning of a war aganst Europe. A war against the unity of Europe,  against elementary human rights in Europe, against the peaceful coexistence of the countries of Europe — and against the fact that European states refuse to settle border disputes by force. Volodymyr Zelensky, February 25, 2022, the day after Russia's invasion began © 2023 Kwiple.com
Ukraine This year can be called a year of losses for Ukraine, for the whole of Europe and the whole world. But it's wrong. We shouldn't say that. We haven't lost anything. It was taken from us. Ukraine did not lose its sons and daughters – they were taken away by murderers. We did not lose our lands – they were occupied by invaders. The world did not lose peace – Russia destroyed it. … It's impossible to forget and it's impossible to forgive, but it's possible to win. Volodymyr Zelensky, December 31, 2022 © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
Ukraine What will bring the end of the war? We used to say “peace”. Now we say "victory". Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukrainian Independence Day, August 24, 2022 six months after Russia's invasion © 2023 Kwiple.com