Quotes from Volodymyr Zelensky

We as a country have something to learn from Israel, especially in the areas of security and defense, and we will of course be doing that.

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

I'm the type of person who responds to facts.

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

I think everybody in Ukraine is so tired about Burisma. We have our own country. We have our independence, we have our problems and questions.

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.

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

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.

I respect Israel as hugely special, especially given all the sensitivities around it. The Jews managed to build a country, to elevate it, without anything except people and brains.

Chernobyl is a unique place on the planet, where nature revives after a world-wide man-made disaster, where there is a real 'ghost town.'

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

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.