Volodymyr Zelensky

Politician

1978-01-25

Quotes by Volodymyr Zelensky

• To all the countries of the former Soviet Union: look at us, everything is possible.

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• We should show Chernobyl to the world: scientists, environmental specialists, historians and tourists.

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• People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

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• If I meet Putin, I'll say to him: 'So you've finally given us back our territory, how much more are you ready to give as compensation money for taking away our land and helping those who took part in the escalation in Crimea and Donbass?'

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• Honestly, Russia should want it, to give our territory, our land back to us.

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• Let's build a country of opportunities, where everybody is equal before the law and where the rules of the game are honest and transparent, and the same for everyone.

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• We are very proud of the fact that we have such a low level of anti-Semitism - such a low level of anti-Semitism in independent Ukraine, which started its life in 1991.

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• Chernobyl has been a negative part of Ukraine's brand. The time has come to change this.

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• Please, please stop saying that Ukraine is a corrupt country, because from now, it's not true. We want to change this image.

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• The Ukrainian nation, as no other nation, understands and is fully aware of the tragedy and its scale of all the lost lives of the Ukrainian Jews during the Second World War.

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• If there is no Ukrainian strong army, there will be no Ukraine, and that will be the case when everyone will understand... it's not the war in Ukraine, it's the war in Europe. We are defending our country, our land. We are not attacking anyone, because that is immoral.

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• I'm sure that in the future, every part of the world will recognize that Holodomor is a huge tragedy for Ukraine, and was actually the destruction of Ukrainian people.

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• It's a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.

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• Ukraine and Israel have long-standing historical ties. Our nations have together experienced all the tragedies in recent history - the Holodomor and the Holocaust, the Second World War, and the totalitarian Soviet regime.

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