Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he intends to place the strategic port city of Odesa under military administration. The announcement came during Zelenskyy's nightly video address and follows confirmation by the country's Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) that long-time Odesa Mayor Hennadiy Trukhanov has been stripped of his Ukrainian citizenship,…

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian forces launched powerful glide bombs and drones against Ukraine’s second-largest city in overnight attacks, hitting a hospital and wounding seven people, an official said Tuesday, as European military aid for Kyiv dropped sharply and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy prepared to ask U.S. President Donald Trump…

President Trump is expected to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, two sources familiar with the planning told Axios.Why it matters: The two will discuss what weapons should be supplied to Ukraine, specifically if the U.S. should provide game-changing long-range Tomahawk missiles to the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Donald Trump at the White House, after the US president suggested he could allow Kyiv to receive long-range Tomahawk missiles if Russia doesn’t end its war against Ukraine. Speaking to reporters in Kyiv on October 13, Zelenskyy said he would meet Trump in Washington…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy renewed calls on the international community to put more pressure on Moscow, as Russia carried out a new wave of attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, cutting power to hundreds of thousands of households. Zelenskyy said on October 12 that Russia had intensified its "aerial terror against…

The Ukrainian president criticised allies for supplying components to Russia, claiming hundreds of thousands of foreign-made parts were used in a strike on Sunday morning in which several people died. Mr Zelensky said in a post on X that microcomputers for flight control produced in the UK were found in…

KYIV -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy used his nightly video address to criticize the lack of international response as western Ukraine and other areas attempted to recover following a series of Russian aerial strikes that killed at least five people. "And unfortunately, there has been no worthy and strong response…

Dozens were injured in a “savage” Russian drone strike Saturday on a Ukrainian railway station, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and power grids ahead of the fourth winter since its all-out invasion. At least 30 people sustained injuries, Zelenskyy said of the…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced that agreements have been reached with a number of African states regarding the export of surplus weapons produced for the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). According to him, this concerns so-called “controlled exports” of those types of weapons for which the Ukrainian army does not…

Before they were a government, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and many of the people who have surrounded him, including his chief of staff and closest adviser, Andriy Yermak, wrote and produced TV shows and movies. Writing scripts may be what they do best. Recently, they have teamed up with the…