Top 70 Volodymyr Zelensky Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

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2. “Light will win over darkness.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

3. “I do not want my picture in your offices. The president is not an icon, an idol or a portrait. Hang your kids’ photos instead, and look at them each time you are making a decision.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

4. “When you attack us, you will see our faces. Not our backs, but our faces.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

5. “It’s a victory when the weapons fall silent and people speak up.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

6. “History is unfair. We are not the ones who have started this war. But we are the ones who have to finish it.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

7. “We have tasted freedom and we will not give it up.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

8. “All my life I tried to do all I could so that Ukrainians laughed. That was my mission. Now I will do all I can so that Ukrainians at least do not cry any more.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

9. “Our weapons are our truth, and our truth lies in the fact that this is our land, this is our country, our children, and we are going to defend all of this… Glory to Ukraine!”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

10. “Nobody is going to break us; we’re strong, we’re Ukrainians!”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

11. “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.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

12. “Ukraine is the heart of Europe, and now I think Europe sees Ukraine is something special for this world. That’s why the world can’t lose this something special.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

13. “The president can’t change the country on his own. But what can he do? He can give an example.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

14. “I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

15. “We Ukrainians are a peaceful nation. But if we remain silent today, we will be gone tomorrow.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

16. “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.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

17. “You can’t think of the global and close your eyes to the details.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

18. “I’m not hiding. And I’m not afraid of anyone.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

19. “We do not hold out, we fight, and our nation will fight to the end. This is our home, we are protecting our land, our homes. For the sake of our children’s future.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

20. “Peace is more important than profit.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

21. “No panic. We’re strong. We’re ready for anything.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

22. “I do not try to play a role. I feel good being myself and saying what I think.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

23. “Senator Rick Scott, please mute your mic.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

24. “In today’s world, where we live, there is no longer someone else’s war. None of you can feel safe when there is a war in Ukraine, when there is a war in Europe.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

25. “I’m not iconic. Ukraine is iconic.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

26. “There can be no strong army in a place where the authorities do not respect the people who every day sacrifice their life for the country.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

27. “To all the countries of the former Soviet Union – look at us, everything is possible.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

28. “All the money I have, I made with my talent.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

29. “Every square of today, no matter what it’s called, is going to be called Freedom Square, in every city of our country. Nobody is gonna break us.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

30. “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.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

31. “This might be the last time you see me alive.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

32. “I would never want Ukraine to be a piece on the map, on the chessboard of big global players, so that someone could toss us around, use us as cover, as part of some bargain.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

33. “The war is a big disaster, and this disaster has a high price. With every meaning of this word. People lose money, reputation, quality of life, they lose freedom. But the main thing is that people lose their loved ones, they lose themselves.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

34. “We are all here, defending our independence, our country. And it will stay that way. Glory to the men and women defending us. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the heroes.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

35. “We are different from Russians, but that is not a reason to be enemies. We want to determine, build our future ourselves, peacefully, calmly and honestly.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

36. “Putin, sit at negotiating table with me. I don’t bite.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

37. “We must become the Icelanders in soccer, the Israelis — in the defense of their native land, the Japanese — in technology and the Swiss — in the ability to live with each other in harmony, despite all the differences.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

38. “We will build the country of opportunities, one where all are equal before the law and where all the rules are honest and transparent, the same for everyone. And for that, we need people in power who will serve the people.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

39. “There is nothing that could possibly explain why the kindergartens and civilian infrastructure are being shelled.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

40. “We are fighting just for our land. And for our freedom, despite the fact that all of the cities of our country are now blocked.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

41. “The people of Ukraine want peace. The government in Ukraine wants peace and is doing everything it can to build it.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

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

— Volodymyr Zelensky

43. “If we come under attack, if we face an attempt to take away our country, our freedom, our lives and the lives of our children, we will defend ourselves.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

44. “Chernobyl has been a negative part of Ukraine’s brand. The time has come to change this.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

45. “According to our information, the enemy marked me as target No. 1, my family as target No. 2. They want to destroy Ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. We have information that enemy sabotage groups have entered Kyiv.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

46. “Neighbors always enrich each other culturally. However, that doesn’t make them a single whole. It doesn’t dissolve us into Russia.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

47. “Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

48. “Nobody is going to enter and intervene with the freedom of our country.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

49. “We are all Ukrainians: there are no bigger or lesser, or correct or incorrect Ukrainians. From Uzhgorod to Luhansk, from Chernigiv to Simferopol, in Lviv, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipro and Odesa — we are Ukrainians. And we have to be one. After all, only then we are strong.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky

50. “Prove that you are with us.”

— Volodymyr Zelensky