Volodymyr

Zelenskyy

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy[a] (Ukrainian: Володимир Олександрович Зеленський,

pronounced [ʋoloˈdɪmɪr olekˈsɑndrowɪdʒ zeˈlɛnʲsʲkɪj]; born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian
politician, former actor and comedian,[4] who is the sixth and current president of Ukraine.
 Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Володимир Зеленський

Official portrait, 2019

6th President of Ukraine

Incumbent

Assumed office

20 May 2019

Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman

Oleksiy Honcharuk

Denys Shmyhal

Preceded by Petro Poroshenko

Personal details

Born Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy

25 January 1978

Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union

(now Ukraine)

Political party Independent[1]

Other political
Servant of the People (2018–present)
affiliations
 Spouse(s) Olena Kiyashko ​(m. 2003)​

Children 2

Parent(s) Oleksandr Zelenskyy

Rymma Zelenska

Residence(s) Mariinskyi Palace

Education Kyiv National Economic University (LLB)

Occupation Politician • actor

Signature

Website president.gov.ua/en (https://www.president.gov.u

a/en)

Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk
Oblast in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv
National Economic University. He then pursued comedy and created the production company
Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the
People, in which Zelenskyy played the role of the Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015
to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party bearing the same name as the television
show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.

Zelenskyy announced his candidacy in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on the evening of
31 December 2018, alongside the New Year's Eve address of then-president Petro Poroshenko
on the TV channel 1+1. A political outsider, he had already become one of the frontrunners in
opinion polls for the election. He won the election with 73.23% of the vote in the second round,
defeating Poroshenko. He has positioned himself as an anti-establishment and anti-corruption
figure.

As president, Zelenskyy has been a proponent of e-government and unity between the Ukrainian-
and Russian-speaking parts of the country's population.[5]: 11–13  His communication style heavily
utilises social media, particularly Instagram being the most popular Ukrainian influencer with 15
million followers - more than twice as many as the next one as of 2022.[6][5]: 7–10  His party won a
landslide victory in a snap legislative election held shortly after his inauguration as president.
During his administration, Zelenskyy oversaw the lifting of legal immunity for members of the
Verkhovna Rada,[7] the country's response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent economic
recession, and some progress in tackling corruption in Ukraine.[8][9] Critics of Zelenskyy claim
that, in taking power away from Ukrainian oligarchs, he has sought to centralise authority and
strengthen his personal position.[10][11]

Zelenskyy promised to end Ukraine's protracted conflict with Russia as part of his presidential
campaign, and attempted to engage in dialogue with Russian president Vladimir Putin.[12]
Zelenskyy's administration faced an escalation of tensions with Russia in 2021, culminating in
the launch of an ongoing full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022. Zelenskyy's strategy
during the Russian military buildup was to calm the Ukrainian populace and assure the
international community that Ukraine was not seeking to retaliate.[13] He initially distanced
himself from warnings of an imminent war, while also calling for security guarantees and military
support from NATO to "withstand" the threat.[14] After the commencement of the invasion,
Zelenskyy declared martial law across Ukraine and a general mobilisation of the armed forces.
His leadership during the crisis has won him widespread international admiration, and he has
been described as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance.[15]

Early life

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born to Jewish parents on 25 January 1978 in Kryvyi
Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.[16][17][18][19] His father, Oleksandr Zelenskyy, is
a professor and computer scientist, and the head of the Department of Cybernetics and
Computing Hardware at the Kryvyi Rih State University of Economics and Technology; his
mother, Rymma Zelenska, used to work as an engineer.[20][21][22] His grandfather, Semyon
(Simon) Ivanovych Zelenskyy, served as Infantry reaching the rank of Colonel[4] in the Red Army
(in the 57th Guards Motor Rifle Division)[23] during World War II; Semyon's father and three
brothers died in the Holocaust.[24][25] Prior to starting elementary school, Zelenskyy lived for four
years in the Mongolian city of Erdenet, where his father worked.[17] Zelenskyy grew up speaking
Russian.[26][4] At the age of 16, he passed the Test of English as a Foreign Language and
received an education grant to study in Israel, but his father did not allow him to go.[27] He later
earned a law degree from the Kryvyi Rih Institute of Economics, then a department of Kyiv
National Economic University and now part of Kryvyi Rih National University, but did not go on to
work in the legal field.[17][28]
 Entertainment career

At age 17, he joined the local KVN[29] (a comedy competition) team and was soon invited to join
the united Ukrainian team "Zaporizhia-Kryvyi Rih-Transit" which performed in the KVN's Major
League and eventually won in 1997.[17][30][31] That same year, he created and headed the Kvartal
95 team which later transformed into the comedy outfit Kvartal 95. From 1998 to 2003, Kvartal
95 performed in the Major League and the highest open Ukrainian league of KVN, the team
members spent a lot of the time in Moscow and constantly toured around post-Soviet
countries.[17][30] In 2003, Kvartal 95 started producing TV shows for the Ukrainian TV channel
1+1, and in 2005, the team moved to fellow Ukrainian TV channel Inter.[17]

In 2008, he starred in the feature film Love in the Big City, and its sequel, Love in the Big City 2.[17]
Zelenskyy continued his movie career with the film Office Romance. Our Time in 2011 and with
Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon in 2012.[17] Love in the Big City 3 was released in January 2014.[17]
Zelenskyy also played the leading role in the 2012 film 8 First Dates and in sequels which were
produced in 2015 and 2016.[17] He recorded the voice of Paddington Bear in the Ukrainian
dubbing of Paddington (2014) and Paddington 2 (2017).[32]

Zelenskyy in Prague in 2009

Zelenskyy was a member of the board and the general producer of the TV channel Inter from
2010 to 2012.[28]

In August 2014, Zelenskyy spoke out against the intention of the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to
ban Russian artists from Ukraine.[33] Since 2015, Ukraine has banned Russian artists and other
Russian works of culture from entering Ukraine.[34] In 2018, the romantic comedy Love in the Big
City 2 starring Zelenskyy was banned in Ukraine.[35]
After the Ukrainian media had reported that during the war in Donbas Zelenskyy's Kvartal 95 had
donated 1 million hryvnias to the Ukrainian army, some Russian politicians and artists petitioned
for a ban on his works in Russia.[36][b] Once again, Zelenskyy spoke out against the intention of
the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture to ban Russian artists from Ukraine.[33]

Kvartal 95 performance in 2018

In 2015, Zelenskyy became the star of the television series Servant of the People, where he
played the role of the president of Ukraine.[28] In the series, Zelenskyy's character was a high-
school history teacher in his 30s who won the presidential election after a viral video showed
him ranting against government corruption in Ukraine.

The comedy series Svaty ("In-laws"), in which Zelenskyy appeared, was banned in Ukraine in
2017,[37] but unbanned in March 2019.[38]

Zelenskyy worked mostly in Russian language productions. His first role in the Ukrainian
language was the romantic comedy I, You, He, She,[39] which appeared on the screens of Ukraine
in December 2018.[40] The first version of the script was written in Ukrainian but was translated
into Russian for the Lithuanian actress Agnė Grudytė. Then the movie was dubbed into
Ukrainian.[41]

2019 presidential campaign

Zelenskyy and then Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, 19 April 2019

In March 2018, members of Zelenskyy's production company Kvartal 95 registered a new

political party called Servant of the People – the same name as the television program that
Zelenskyy had starred in over the previous three years.[42][43] Although Zelenskyy denied any
immediate plans to enter politics and said he had only registered the party name to prevent it
being appropriated by others,[44] there was widespread speculation that he was planning to run.
As early as October 2018, three months before his campaign announcement and six months
before the presidential election, he was already a frontrunner in opinion polls.[45][43] After months
of ambiguous statements,[44][43] on 31 December, less than four months from the election,
Zelenskyy announced his candidacy for president of Ukraine on the New Year's Eve evening
show on the TV channel 1+1.[46] His announcement up-staged the New Year's Eve address of
incumbent president Petro Poroshenko on the same channel,[46] which Zelenskyy said was
unintentional and attributed to a technical glitch.[47]

Zelenskyy's presidential campaign against Poroshenko was almost entirely virtual.[48][49] He did
not release a detailed policy platform[50] and his engagement with mainstream media was
minimal;[48][c] he instead reached out to the electorate via social media channels and YouTube
clips.[48] In place of traditional campaign rallies, he conducted stand-up comedy routines across
Ukraine with his production company Kvartal 95.[52][53] He styled himself as an anti-
establishment, anti-corruption figure, although he was not generally described as a populist.[50]
He said he wished to restore trust in politicians, "to bring professional, decent people to power"
and to "change the mood and timbre of the political establishment".[42][43][54] On 16 April 2019, a
few days before the election, 20 Ukrainian news outlets called on Zelenskyy to "stop avoiding
journalists".[48] Zelenskyy stated that he was not hiding from journalists but that he did not want
to go to talk shows where "people of the old power" were "just doing PR" and that he did not have
time to satisfy all interview requests.[55]
Prior to the elections, Zelenskyy presented a team that included former Finance Minister
Oleksandr Danylyuk and others.[56][51] During the campaign, concerns were raised over his links
to the oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.[57] President Poroshenko and his supporters claimed that
Zelenskyy's victory would benefit Russia.[58][59][60][61] On 19 April 2019 at Olimpiyskiy National
Sports Complex presidential debates were held in the form of a show.[62][63][64] In his introductory
speech, Zelenskyy acknowledged that in 2014 he voted for Poroshenko, but "I was mistaken. We
were mistaken. We voted for one Poroshenko, but received another. The first appears when there
are video cameras, the other Petro sends Medvedchuk privietiki (greetings) to Moscow".[62]
Although Zelenskyy initially said he would only serve a single term, he walked back this promise
in May 2021, saying he had not yet made up his mind.[65]

Zelenskyy stated that as president he would develop the economy and attract investment to
Ukraine through "a restart of the judicial system" and restoring confidence in the state.[66] He
also proposed a tax amnesty and a 5 % flat tax for big business which could be increased "in
dialogue with them and if everyone agrees".[66] According to Zelenskyy, if people would notice
that his new government "works honestly from the first day", they would start paying their
taxes.[66]

Zelenskyy clearly won the first round of elections on 31 March 2019.[67] In the second round, on
21 April 2019, he received 73% of the vote to Poroshenko's 25%, and was elected President of
Ukraine.[68][69] Polish president Andrzej Duda was one of the first European leaders to
congratulate Zelenskyy.[70] French president Emmanuel Macron received Zelenskyy at the Élysée
Palace in Paris on 12 April 2019.[71] On 22 April, U.S. president Donald Trump congratulated
Zelenskyy on his victory over the telephone.[72][73] European Commission president Jean Claude
Juncker and European Council president Donald Tusk also issued a joint letter of
congratulations and stated that the European Union (EU) will work to speed up the
implementation of the remainder of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, including the Deep
and Comprehensive Free Trade Area.[74]

Presidency
 Presidential styles of

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Reference style Його Високоповажність, Президент України.

"His Excellency, the President of Ukraine"

Spoken style Президент України.

"President of Ukraine"

Alternative style Пане Президенте.

"Mr President"

Zelenskyy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Federal Chancellery Complex in Berlin, June 2019.

Zelenskyy and Belarusian president Alexander Lukashenko in Zhytomyr, October 2019.

Zelenskyy was inaugurated on 20 May 2019.[75] Various foreign officials attended the ceremony
in Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada), including Salome Zourabichvili (Georgia), Kersti
Kaljulaid (Estonia), Raimonds Vējonis (Latvia), Dalia Grybauskaitė (Lithuania), János Áder
(Hungary), Maroš Šefčovič (European Union), and Rick Perry (United States).[76] Zelenskyy is the
first Jewish president; with Volodymyr Groysman as Prime Minister, Ukraine became the first
country other than Israel to have a Jewish head of state and head of government.[19] In his
inaugural address, Zelenskyy dissolved the then Ukrainian parliament and called for early
parliamentary elections (which had originally been due to be held in October of that year).[77] One
of Zelenskyy's coalition partners, the People's Front, opposed the move and withdrew from the
ruling coalition.[78]

On 28 May, Zelenskyy restored the Ukrainian citizenship of Mikheil Saakashvili.[79]

Zelenskyy's first major proposal to change the electoral system was rejected by the Ukrainian
parliament.[80]

In addition, on 6 June, lawmakers refused to include Zelenskyy's key initiative on reintroducing

criminal liability for illegal enrichment in the parliament's agenda, and instead included a similar
bill proposed by a group of deputies.[81][82] In June 2019 it was announced that the president's
third major initiative, which seeks to remove immunity from lawmakers, diplomats and judges,
would be submitted after the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[83] This initiative was
completed on 3 September, when the new parliament passed a bill stripping lawmakers of legal
immunity, delivering Zelenskyy a legislative victory by fulfilling one of his key campaign
promises.[84]

U.S. vice president Mike Pence and U.S. delegation meets with Zelenskyy in Warsaw on 1 September 2019
Zelenskyy meets with U.S. president Donald Trump in New York City on 25 September 2019

On 8 July, Zelenskyy ordered the cancellation of the annual Kyiv Independence Day Parade on
Maidan Nezalezhnosti, citing costs. Despite this, Zelenskyy highlighted that the day would
"honor heroes" on Independence Day, however the "format will be new".[85][86][87] He also
proposed to spend the money that would have been used to finance the parade on veterans.[88]

In 2020, Zelenskyy's party proposed reforms to Ukraine's media laws with the intent to increase
competition and loosen the dominance of Ukrainian oligarchs on television and radio
broadcasters. Critics said it risked increasing media censorship in Ukraine[89] because its clause
of criminal responsibility for the distribution of disinformation could be abused.[90]

Zelenskyy was criticized for a secret trip to Oman in January 2020 that was not published on his
official schedule and on which he appeared to mix a personal holiday with government business.
Although the president's office said the trip had been paid for by Zelenskyy himself and not with
government money, Zelenskyy came under heavy criticism for the lack of transparency around
the trip, which was compared unfavourably to a secret vacation his predecessor Petro
Poroshenko took in the Maldives, and which Zelenskyy himself had criticized at the time.[91][92]

In January 2021, parliament passed a bill updating and reforming Ukraine's referendum laws,[93]
which Ukraine's Constitutional Court had declared unconstitutional in 2018.[94] Fixing the
referendum law had been one of Zelenskyy's campaign promises.[93]
In June 2021, Zelenskyy submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill creating a public registry of
Ukraine's oligarchs, banning them from participating in privatizations of state-owned companies,
and forbidding them from contributing financially to politicians. Opposition party leaders
supported Zelenskyy's goal of reducing oligarchs' influence on politics in Ukraine but were
critical of his approach, saying the public register would be both dangerous, as it concentrated
power in the president; and ineffective, since oligarchs were merely a "symbol" of more deeply-
rooted corruption.[95] The bill was passed into law in September 2021.[96]

Cabinets and administration

Zelenskyy appointed Andriy Bohdan as head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine. Prior
to this, Bohdan had been the lawyer of Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi.[97] Under the rules of
Lustration in Ukraine, introduced in 2014 following Euromaidan, Bohdan is not entitled to hold
any state office until 2024 (because of his government post during the Second Azarov
Government).[98] Bohdan, however, contended that because heading the presidential
administration is not considered civil service work, lustration did not apply to him.[99] A number
of the members of the Presidential Administration Zelenskyy appointed were former colleagues
from his former production company, Kvartal 95,[97] including Ivan Bakanov, who became deputy
head of the Ukrainian Secret Service.[100] Former Deputy Foreign Minister Olena Zerkal declined
an appointment as deputy head of the presidential administration, but did agree to serve as the
Ukrainian representative of the international courts concerning Russia.[101] Zelenskyy's requests
to replace the foreign minister, defence minister, chief prosecutor and head of Ukraine's security
service were rejected by parliament.[102][103] Zelenskyy also dismissed and replaced 20 of the
governors of Ukraine's 24 oblasts.[104]

Honcharuk government

In the 21 July 2019 parliamentary election, Zelenskyy's political party, Servant of the People, won
the first single-party majority in modern Ukrainian history in parliament, with 43 % of the party-
list vote. His party gained 254 of the 424 seats.[105]

Following the elections, Zelenskyy nominated Oleksiy Honcharuk as prime minister, who was
quickly confirmed by parliament. Parliament also confirmed Andrii Zahorodniuk as defence
minister, Vadym Prystaiko as foreign minister and Ivan Bakanov as head of the SBU.[106] Arsen
Avakov, a controversial figure due to longstanding corruption allegations,[107] was kept on as
interior minister, with Honcharuk arguing that the relatively inexperienced government needed
experienced administrators and that Avakov had been "'drawn red lines' that cannot be
crossed."[108]

Zelenskyy dismissed Bohdan as head of his presidential administration on 11 February 2020 and
appointed Andriy Yermak as his successor the same day.[109]

Shmyhal government

On 6 March 2020, the Honcharuk government gave way to the government of Denys Shmyhal. At
the time, there was disquiet in the press over the hasty departure of Honcharuk.[110] In his 4
March address to the Rada,[111] Zelenskyy recommitted to reforms domestic and financial, and
remarked that he "cannot always become a psychologist for people, a crisis manager for
someone, a collector who requires honestly earned money, and a nanny of the ministry in
charge." By September 2020, Zelenskyy's approval ratings had fallen to less than 32 %.[112]

Zelenskyy and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on 16 October 2020

On 24 March 2021, Zelenskyy signed the Decree 117/2021 approving the "strategy for de-
occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic
of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol."[113]

Attempts to end the Donbas conflict

One of Zelenskyy's central campaign promises had been to end the war in Donbas and resolve
the Russia-sponsored separatist movement there.[114] On 3 June, Zelenskyy appointed former
president Leonid Kuchma as Ukraine's representative in the Tripartite Contact Group for a
settlement in the conflict.[115] On 11 July 2019, Zelenskyy held his first telephone conversation
with Russian president Vladimir Putin, during which he urged Putin to enter into talks mediated
by European countries.[116][117] The two leaders also discussed the exchange of prisoners held
by both sides.[117] In October 2019, Zelenskyy announced a preliminary deal struck with the
separatists, under which the Ukrainian government would respect elections held in the region in
exchange for Russia withdrawing its unmarked troops.[114] The deal was met with heavy
criticism and protests by both politicians and the Ukrainian public. Detractors noted that
elections held in Donbas were unlikely to be free and fair, that the separatists had long driven out
most pro-Ukrainian residents out of the region to ensure a pro-Russia majority, and that it would
be impossible to ensure Russia kept its end of the agreement.[114] Zelenskyy defended his
negotiations, saying the elections would not be held before a Russian withdrawal.[118] The
agreement failed to ease the conflict, as the separatists continued their attacks and Russia
continued providing them with weapons and ammunition.[119] Several Ukrainian nationalist
militias and former militias also refused to accept the agreement, including the far-right Azov
fighters in the Luhansk region of Donbas. Zelenskyy met personally with some of these groups
and tried to convince them to surrender their unregistered weapons and accept the peace
accord. Andriy Biletsky, the leader of the far-right National Corps and first commander of Azov,
accused Zelenskyy of being disrespectful to army veterans and of acting on behalf of the
Kremlin by leaving Ukrainians vulnerable to Russian aggression.[120][121] Ultimately, the peace
deal failed to reduce the violence, much less end the war.[119]

In December 2019, Russia and Ukraine agreed to resume talks mediated by France and Germany
under the so-called Normandy Format, which had been abandoned in 2016; it was Zelensky's
first face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin.[122] In July 2020, Zelenskyy announced a formal
ceasefire with the separatists — the more than twentieth such attempt since the war began in
2014.[123] Although the ceasefire was frequently violated over the next few years and overall
violence remained high, ceasefire violations in 2020 did decrease by over 50% compared to the
previous year.[124]

UIA Flight 752

On 8 January 2020, the Presidential Office announced that Volodymyr Zelenskyy was cutting his
trip to Oman short due to the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 plane crash in nearby Iran
the same day.[125] The same day, internet news site Obozrevatel.com released information that
on 7 January 2020, Ukrainian politician of the Opposition Platform — For Life Viktor Medvedchuk
– who has exclusive relations with the current president of Russia – may have arrived in
Oman.[126][127] Soon, rumors began that Zelenskyy may have had some additional meetings
beside the ones that were announced.[128] On 14 January 2020, Andriy Yermak dismissed the
rumors as speculations and baseless conspiracy theories,[129] while Medvedchuk stated that the
plane was used by his older daughter's family to fly from Oman to Moscow.[130] Later, Yermak
contacted the on-line newspaper Ukrainian Truth and gave more details about the visit to Oman
and the plane crash in Iran.[131]

Zelenskyy and Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, in February 2021

On 17 January 2020, the presidential appointee Minister of Foreign Affairs Vadym Prystaiko was
unable to give answers during the "times of questions to the government" in parliament when
the people's deputies of Ukraine asked him about the visit's official agenda, the invitation from
Oman, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who were preparing the visit, as well as how the
president actually crossed the border while visiting Oman.[132][133] On 20 January 2020, Prystaiko
followed up by giving a briefing to the press in the Office of the president of Ukraine and saying
that he would explain everything about the visit that when the time came.[134]

Foreign relations
Zelenskyy, Ukraine's defense minister Andriy Taran and U.S. secretary of defense Lloyd Austin on 31 August 2021

Zelenskyy and U.S. president Joe Biden on 1 September 2021

Zelenskyy's first official trip abroad as president was to Brussels in June 2019, where he met
with European Union and NATO officials.[135]

In August 2019, Zelenskyy promised to lift the moratorium on exhuming Polish mass graves in
Ukraine after the previous Ukrainian government banned the Polish side from carrying out any
exhumations of Polish victims of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army-perpetrated Volhynian
massacres, following the removal of a memorial to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army in Hruszowice,
southeastern Poland.[136]

In September 2019, it was reported that U.S. president Donald Trump had allegedly blocked
payment of a congressionally mandated $400 million military aid package to Ukraine to pressure
Zelenskyy during a July phone call between the two presidents to investigate alleged
wrongdoing by Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden,[61][137] who took a board seat on Ukrainian
natural gas company Burisma Holdings.[138] This report was the catalyst for the Trump–Ukraine
scandal and the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump. Zelenskyy has denied that he was
pressured by Trump and declared that "he does not want to interfere in a foreign election."[139]
Zelenskyy and Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev on 17 December 2019

On a trip to the United States in September 2021, Zelenskyy engaged in talks and commitments
with U.S. president Joe Biden,[140] Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, Secretary of Energy
Jennifer Granholm,[141] and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.[142] President Zelenskyy and First
Lady Olena Zelenska also took part in the opening of the Ukrainian House in Washington,
D.C.[141] On the same trip, he met with Apple CEO Tim Cook[143] and with Ukrainians in senior
positions at Silicon Valley tech companies[144] and spoke at Stanford University.[145] While
Zelenskyy was still in the U.S., just after delivering a speech at the United Nations, an
assassination attempt was made in Ukraine on Serhiy Shefir, his closest aide. Shefir was unhurt
in the attack, although his driver was hospitalized with three bullet wounds.[146]

2021–2022 Russo-Ukrainian crisis

In April 2021, in response to Russian military build-up at the Ukrainian borders, Zelenskyy spoke
to American president Joe Biden and urged NATO members to speed up Ukraine's request for
membership.[147]

On 26 November 2021, Zelenskyy accused Russia and Ukrainian oligarch Rinat Akhmetov of
backing a plan to overthrow his government.[148] Russia denied any involvement in a coup plot
and Akhmetov said in a statement that "the information made public by Volodymyr Zelenskiy
about attempts to draw me into some kind of coup is an absolute lie. I am outraged by the
spread of this lie, no matter what the president's motives are."[149][150] In December 2021,
Zelenskyy called for preemptive action against Russia.[151]

On 19 January 2022, Zelenskyy said in a video message that the country's citizens should not
panic and appealed to the media to be "methods of mass information and not mass
hysteria."[152][153] On 28 January, Zelenskyy called on the West not to create a "panic" in his
country over a potential Russian invasion, adding that constant warnings of an "imminent" threat
of invasion are putting the economy of Ukraine at risk.[154] Zelenskyy said that "we do not see a
bigger escalation" than in early 2021 when Russia's military build-up started.[155] Zelenskyy and
U.S. president Joe Biden disagreed on how imminent the threat was.[156][157]

On 19 February, as worries of a Russian invasion of Ukraine grew, Zelenskyy warned a security

forum that Western nations should abandon their "appeasement" attitude toward Moscow.
"Ukraine has been granted security assurances in exchange for giving up the world's third-largest
nuclear arsenal. We don't have any firearms. And there's no security... But we have a right to urge
a transformation from an appeasement policy to one that ensures security and peace," he
stated.[158]

In the early hours of 24 February, shortly before the start of the Russian invasion, Zelenskyy
recorded an address to the citizens of both Ukraine and Russia. In part of the address, he spoke
in Russian to the people of Russia, appealing to them to pressure their leadership to prevent war.
He also refuted claims of the Russian government about the presence of neo-Nazis in the
Ukrainian government and stated that he had no intention of attacking the Donbas region, while
highlighting his personal connections to the area.[159]

Russian invasion of Ukraine

Ukraine's Parliament (Verkhovna Rada) chairman Ruslan Stefanchuk, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and
Ukraine's Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal after signing of the application for membership in the European Union during the
war on 28 February 2022

On the morning of 24 February, Putin announced that Russia was initiating a "special military
operation" in the Donbas. Russian missiles struck a number of military targets in Ukraine, and
Zelenskyy declared martial law.[160] Zelenskyy also announced that diplomatic relations with
Russia were being severed, effective immediately.[161] Later in the day, he announced general
mobilisation.[162]

On 25 February, Zelenskyy said that despite Russia's claim that it was targeting only military
sites, civilian sites were also being hit.[163] In an early morning address that day, Zelenskyy said
that his intelligence services had identified him as Russia's top target, but that he is staying in
Kyiv and his family will remain in the country. "They want to destroy Ukraine politically by
destroying the head of state", he said.[164]

In the early hours of 26 February, during the most significant assault by Russian troops on the
capital of Kyiv, the United States government and Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged
Zelenskyy to evacuate to a safer location, and both offered assistance for such an effort.
Zelenskyy turned down both offers and opted to remain in Kyiv with its defense forces, saying
that "the fight is here [in Kyiv]; I need ammunition, not a ride".[165][166][167]

Zelenskyy has gained worldwide recognition as the wartime leader of Ukraine during the Russian
invasion; historian Andrew Roberts compared him to Winston Churchill.[168][169] Harvard Political
Review said that Zelenskyy "has harnessed the power of social media to become history's first
truly online wartime leader, bypassing traditional gatekeepers as he uses the internet to reach
out to the people."[170] He has been described as a national hero or a "global hero" by many
commentators, including publications such as The Hill, Deutsche Welle, Der Spiegel and USA
Today.[168][171][172][173] BBC News and The Guardian have reported that his response to the
invasion has received praise even from previous critics.[167][174]

During the invasion, three attempts to assassinate Zelenskyy were prevented due to tips from
Russian FSB employees who opposed the invasion. Two of the attempts were carried out by the
Wagner Group, a Russian paramilitary force, and one by the Kadyrovites, the personal guard of
Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.[175]

While speaking about Ukrainian civilians who were killed by Russian forces, Zelenskyy said:[176]

"We will not forgive. We will not forget. We will punish everyone who
committed atrocities in this war... We will find every scum who was
shelling our cities, our people, who was shooting the missiles, who was
giving orders. You will not have a quiet place on this earth – except for
a grave."
Zelenskyy has been called by the Times of Israel the "Jewish defender of Ukrainian
democracy".[25] Gal Beckerman of The Atlantic described Zelenskyy as having "[given] the world
a Jewish Hero".[177]

On 7 March 2022, Czech president Milos Zeman decided to award Zelenskyy with the highest
state award of the Czech Republic, the Order of the White Lion, for "his bravery and courage in
the face of Russia's invasion".[178]

Zelenskyy has repeatedly called for direct talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin,[179] saying:
"Good Lord, what do you want? Leave our land. If you don't want to leave now, sit down with me
at the negotiating table. But not from 30 meters away, like with Macron and Scholz. I don't
bite."[180]

On 7 March, as a condition for ending the invasion, the Kremlin demanded Ukraine's neutrality,
recognition of Crimea, which had been annexed by Russia, as Russian territory, and recognition
of the self-proclaimed separatist republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states.[181]
On 8 March, Zelenskyy expressed willingness to discuss Putin's demands.[179] Zelenskyy said he
is ready for dialogue, but "not for capitulation".[182] He proposed a new collective security
agreement for Ukraine with the United States, Turkey, France, Germany and Russia as an
alternative to the country joining NATO.[183] Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party said that
Ukraine would not give up its claims on Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk.[184]

Political views

Economic issues

In a mid-June interview with BIHUS info a representative of the president of Ukraine at the
Cabinet of Ministers, Andriy Herus stated that Zelenskyy had never promised to lower communal
tariffs, but that a campaign video in which Zelenskyy stated that the price of natural gas in
Ukraine could fall by 20–30 % or maybe more was a not a direct promise but actually “half-
hinting" and "joking".[185] Notably, Zelenskyy's election manifesto mentioned tariffs only once—
that money raised from a capital amnesty would go towards "lowering the tariff burden on low-
income citizens".[186][187]

Foreign policy
During his presidential campaign, Zelenskyy said that he supported Ukraine's becoming a
member of the European Union and NATO, but he said Ukrainian voters should decide on the
country's membership of these two organisations in referenda.[188] At the same time, he believed
that the Ukrainian people had already chosen "eurointegration".[188][189] Zelenskyy's close advisor
Ivan Bakanov also said that Zelenskyy's policy is supportive of membership of both the EU and
NATO, and proposes holding referendums on membership.[190] Zelenskyy's electoral programme
claimed that Ukrainian NATO membership is "the choice of the Maidan and the course that is
enshrined in the Constitution, in addition, it is an instrument for strengthening our defense
capability".[191] The program states that Ukraine should set the goal to apply for a NATO
Membership Action Plan in 2024.[191] The programme also states that Zelenskyy "will do
everything to ensure" that Ukraine can apply for European Union membership in 2024.[192] Two
days before the second round, Zelenskyy stated that he wanted to build "a strong, powerful, free
Ukraine, which is not the younger sister of Russia, which is not a corrupt partner of Europe, but
our independent Ukraine".[193]

In October 2020, he spoke in support of Azerbaijan in regards to the Nagorno-Karabakh war

between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenians over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.
Zelenskyy said: "We support Azerbaijan's territorial integrity and sovereignty just as Azerbaijan
always supports our territorial integrity and sovereignty."[194]

In February 2022, he applied for Ukraine to join the European Union.[195][196]

Zelenskyy has tried to position Ukraine as a neutral party in the political and trade tensions
between the United States and China. In January 2021, Zelenskyy said in an interview with Axios
that he does not perceive China as a geopolitical threat and that he does not agree with the
United States assertions that it represents one.[197]

Russo-Ukrainian War

Zelenskyy supported the late 2013 and early 2014 Euromaidan movement. During the war in
Donbas, he actively supported the Ukrainian army.[28] Zelenskyy helped fund a volunteer
battalion fighting on Donbas.[198]

In a 2014 interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda in Ukraine, Zelenskyy said that he would have
liked to pay a visit to Crimea, but would avoid it because "armed people are there".[199] In August
2014, Zelenskyy performed for Ukrainian troops in Mariupol and later his studio donated a
million hryvnias to the Ukrainian army.[200] Regarding the 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea,
Zelenskyy said that, speaking realistically, it would be possible to return Crimea to Ukrainian
control only after a regime change in Russia.[201]

In an interview in December 2018, Zelenskyy stated that as president he would try to end the
ongoing war in Donbas by negotiating with Russia.[202][203] As he considered the leaders of the
Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic (DPR and LPR) to be Russia's
"puppets", it would "make no sense to speak with them".[203] He did not rule out holding a
referendum on the issue.[204][203] In an interview published three days before the 2019
presidential election (on 21 April), Zelenskyy stated that he was against granting the Donbas
region "special status".[205] In the interview he also said that if he were elected president he
would not sign a law on amnesty for the militants of the DPR and LPR.[205]

In response to suggestions to the contrary, he stated in April 2019 that he regarded Russian
president Vladimir Putin "as an enemy".[206] On 2 May 2019, Zelenskyy wrote on Facebook that
"the border is the only thing Russia and Ukraine have in common".[207]

Zelenskyy opposes the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline between Russia and Germany, calling
it "a dangerous weapon, not only for Ukraine but for the whole of Europe."[208]

Government reform

Zelenskyy with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in June 2019

During the presidential campaign, Zelenskyy promised bills to fight corruption, including removal
of immunity from the president of the country, members of the Verkhovna Rada (the Ukrainian
parliament) and judges, a law about impeachment, reform of election laws, and providing
efficient trial by jury. He promised to bring the salary for military personnel "to the level of NATO
standards".[209]

Although Zelenskyy prefers elections with open list election ballots, after he called the snap
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election his draft law "On amendments to some laws of Ukraine in
connection with the change of the electoral system for the election of people's deputies"
proposed to hold the election with closed list because the 60-day term to the snap election did
not "leave any chances for the introduction of this system".[210]

Social issues

Zelenskyy in the Donetsk region in June 2021

Zelenskyy supports the free distribution of medical cannabis, free abortion in Ukraine, and the
legalisation of prostitution and gambling.[205] He opposes the legalisation of firearms.[205]

Zelenskyy stated in April 2019 that "of course" he supports the decommunization of Ukraine, but
is not happy with its current form.[211][205] In an interview with RBC-Ukraine in April 2019,
Zelenskyy said that OUN-B leader Stepan Bandera, a controversial figure in Ukrainian history, was
"a hero for a certain part of Ukrainians, and this is a normal and cool thing. He was one of those
who defended the freedom of Ukraine. But I think that when we name so many streets, bridges
by the same name, this is not quite right."[211][212] In that same interview, Zelenskyy went on to
criticise the overuse of tributes to Taras Shevchenko, a famous 19th century Ukrainian poet and
painter. Zelenskyy concluded: "We must remember the heroes of today, heroes of the arts,
heroes of literature, simply heroes of Ukraine. Why don't we use their names – the names of the
heroes that today unite Ukraine?"[211]
Zelenskyy opposes targeting the Russian language in Ukraine and banning artists for their
political opinions (such as those viewed by the Government as anti-Ukrainian).[213][214] In April
2019, he stated that he was not against a Ukrainian language quota (on radio and TV), although
he noted they could be tweaked.[211] He also said that Russian artists "who have turned into
(anti-Ukrainian) politicians" should remain banned from entering Ukraine.[205]

Pandora Papers

The October 2021 Pandora Papers revealed that Zelenskyy and his chief aide and the head of
the Security Service of Ukraine Ivan Bakanov operated a network of offshore companies in the
British Virgin Islands, Cyprus, and Belize. These companies included some that owned expensive
London property.[215] Around the time of his 2019 election, Zelenskyy handed his shares in a key
offshore company over to Shefir, but the two men appear to have made an arrangement for
Zelenskyy's family to continue receiving the money from these companies.[215] Zelenskyy's
election campaign had centred on pledges to clean up the government of Ukraine.[215] In a 17
October 2021 interview with ICTV, Zelenskyy did not deny that in 2012 he used offshore
companies.[216] He claimed he did this to avoid (his then satirical TV shows) being "influenced by
politics".[216] Zelenskyy stressed that neither he nor any member of "Kvartal 95" were involved in
money laundering.[216]

Awards and decorations

 Czech Republic:
Order of the White Lion, First Class (2022)[217]

 Latvia:
Commander of Grand Cross of the Order of Viesturs (2022)[218]

 Lithuania:
Order of Vytautas the Great with the Golden Chain (2022)[219]

 Poland:
Jan Karski Eagle Award (2022)[220]

 United States:
Ronald Reagan Freedom Award (2022)[221]

 Ukraine:
 Diploma of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine (2003)[222]

Personal life

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Olena Zelenska in 2019 parliamentary election

In September 2003, Zelenskyy married Olena Kiyashko,[17] with whom he had attended school.[17]
The couple's first daughter, Oleksandra, was born in July 2004.[17] Their son, Kyrylo, was born in
January 2013.[17] In Zelenskyy's 2014 movie 8 New Dates, their daughter played Sasha, the
daughter of the protagonist.[17] In 2016, she participated in the show The Comedy Comet
Company Comedy's Kids and won 50,000 hryvnias.[17]

Zelenskyy's first language is Russian, and he is also fluent in Ukrainian and English.[223][224] His
assets were worth about 37 million hryvnias (about $1.5 million USD) in 2018.[225]

Selected filmography

The film premiere of I, You, He, She

Film

Year Title Role

2009 Love in the Big City Igor

2011 Office Romance. Our Time Anatoly Efremovich Novoseltsev

Love in the Big City 2 Igor

2012 Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon Napoleon

8 First Dates Nikita Sokolov

Love in Vegas Igor Zelenskyy

2014
Paddington (Ukrainian dub) Paddington Bear (voice)

2015 8 New Dates Nikita Andreevich Sokolov

2018 I, You, He, She Maksym Tkachenko

Television series and shows

Year Title Role Notes

2006 Dancing with the Stars (Ukraine) as contestant

2008–2012 Svaty ("In-Laws") as producer

2015–2019 Servant of the People (TV series) Vasyl Petrovych Holoborodko

Notes

a. Zelenskyy's name is transliterated in several different ways. Zelenskyy is the transliteration on his
passport, and his administration has used it since he assumed presidency in 2019.[2][3]

b. Since 2015, Ukraine has banned Russian artists and other Russian works of culture from entering
Ukraine.[34]

c. From 21 January until 18 April 2019 Zelenskyy did not give interviews.[51]

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