President Zelensky
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Dismay in Ukraine as Russia and US reset ties
In order for the war to end with a reliable and lasting peace, we must not make any mistakes. This is possible only when the negotiations are fair and Ukraine, America and the whole of Europe are represented at the negotiating table. Guarantees are developed with the participation of all who are really capable of giving them.
Global News Podcast
Von der Leyen: 'Europe is at a watershed'
I want to thank all our European leaders for such signal, strong support, strong support from the very beginning of the war. And during all this period and last week, you stayed with us. And of course, from all the Ukrainians, from all our nations, big appreciation. We are very thankful that we are not alone. And these are not just words, we feel it.
Global News Podcast
Millions hit by huge winter storm in US
In battles near the village of Maknevka in the Kursk region, the Russian army lost up to a battalion of North Korean infantry soldiers and Russian paratroopers. This is significant. Overall, I want to commend the professional and effective actions of our soldiers in the Special Operations Forces and the 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
I trust President Trump because he is the President of the United States, because your people, your people voted for him and I respect their choice and I will work with the President Trump with trust which I have to the United States.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2140 - Trump & Vance WRECK Europe
Of course, I want to have real meeting, productive, without just words with the contrary steps and to hear us, to hear President Trump, to make common plan and to share it with allies than with Russians and stop this war.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We should demonstrate this path that I've already mentioned to a path towards the end of this war. We count on this strategic partnership, and we always respected the people of the United States and the choice of the United States and the support coming from the United States. And that is why I think that we will have more fruitful meetings with President Trump.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
You have to understand, Ukraine, that we are defending against Russia's offense. And we believe Russia is an enemy. We believe the United States is a true and real friend. We know that the United States has a position to serve as the mediator in this conflict. That is the choice made by the United States.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We consider the United States as a strong strategic partner with an influence, and we would really like to have these two strengths that would be used towards Russia, so that the force would be towards Russia, because they're the one who's the aggressor. And we would like really to have this common understanding that Russia is the aggressor, not we.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And we really want the United States not to search for the balance in these words. I understand what President Trump is willing to have. I highly respect the fact that he's searching for an approach. That's his approach. Somebody might have a different approach, but you shouldn't be saying that Ukraine and Russia started this war.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
I believe that it's painful for our people to hear, and this is why we respond in this way. We're talking about the dignity of our country. We have demonstrated that we are ready to protect our dignity in any situation. I'm doing that as the president. We have clearly demonstrated that in the beginning of the war. It was the war. It still remains the war. We have only one enemy, Russia and Putin.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And that is why even if we're talking a diplomatic environment, everything is related to the Ukraine's dignity. I will always defend it. This is my job. I'm the president. I'm the guarantor of the constitution of Ukraine.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Let me start with the end of your question. As for the audit, the United States have to understand there's United States inspectors working. There's the inspectors of European countries because they've also allocated the money and we are also grateful to them. Just as to the United States, we highly respect them.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
the support and assistance coming from the people of the United States as well as the people of Europe. That is why we have told at once that we are ready to have any inspections from the very beginning of the war. The inspectors coming from the United States, Europe and our own inspectors, they're working. We have complete reporting counting, absolutely transparent within the Ministry of Defence.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
There is access to all the figures starting from the very first year of the war. there's always and there's been always an access. When we've seen in the very beginning of the war that Russia attempted to undermine the support and assistance coming from the United States, because the United States was the main donor, and they wanted to undermine this through fake news, through other tools.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
That is why we told it once that we are open, send the inspectors, and they were inspectors. So as for the audit, we're always ready to any audit. There's Nothing to hide. We are absolutely open, transparent. And that is what's happening. There's all the reports available. The second aspect, I never wanted to, you know, well, I was grateful to all the U.S. taxpayers.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
I understand that the United States have different programs, directions, and that is also related to the... weapons support and to the assistance of other countries of the world. I want to be absolutely frank. That's with regards to the audit. I have my own internal audit and I clearly understand how much assistance coming from which country at which moment was provided to Ukraine.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
I'm not responding wholly to like saying that United States has transferred something around 200 billion. I'm responding to the facts. The United States could be, you know, registering that, could be voting.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And we are grateful to the bipartisan support in the Congress because we are grateful to this unity around the fight of Ukraine for the independence and your great assistance and the great contribution of the United States in this, in the defense of our people. I have my own internal audit, and my country is clearly documenting how many assistance was provided.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Just for you to know, we had 104, 105 billion US dollars. Most of those money were in the form of weapons. Now, that's first thing. All of those weapons came. The money were paid to the transportation of those weapons. Ukrainian companies were not allowed to transport this money. That's why we haven't received, not in the public, not in the private sector, the money for the transportation.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
There were different assistance programs, the training of Ukrainian soldiers abroad. There's many things. I'm documenting and registering what we have. I understand there could be different calculations, different assistance programs or aid programs, but this is like an audit, really. You are verifying what was the output, so to say, and we kind of verify what was the input.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We verify this because we need to, you know, keep the face in our relations with the key strategic partner. It's very important. It's not that we're arguing that the United States have said that we're giving you 200, and Ukraine is saying, no, it's 100. No, it's not an argument. It's not a dispute. But it's important that both countries and the taxpayers, they should know where their money are.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
So that's it. And I kept saying all the time, it's not that I'm...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
not you know properly responding to 200 300 400 no no i'm responding to what was the input so to say how many money came to ukraine now in terms of the use of those money primarily that was for the weapons they were used on the battlefield and the audit that i've mentioned clearly documented that whether this weapon was used on the battlefield
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Or, in accordance to some of the information been posted on the media, primarily there were the Russian narratives that some of the weapons were sent elsewhere, or there was some corruption related to these weapons, something was sold. No. All the audit that took place, not a single time has found any fact of sales of U.S. weapons to somewhere abroad.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
So there was no information like that in any of the audit. Then, secondly, the funding, they support the different social programs. That was different social programs, but the salary that we pay...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
to our soldiers the pensions that we pay to our pensioners and we have 11.5 million pensioners so the salaries and the pensions these are only paid from the ukrainian budget this only by the ukrainian money not because we didn't need the um kind of financial support uh or the or the support to the people there were different aspects infrastructural aspects etc
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We needed all of that, and we are grateful to all that, but the United States have to know that they were not feeding our pensioners and our soldiers with regards to the salary or the compensation. Surely, you've provided the most important aspect, that is the weapons, the weapons we needed to defend. Now, those things are very important. Now, there are special programs or separate programs
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And we have the clear figures behind those. When the United States were paying money for the development of a certain direction in the technological kind of development, like in new drones, and there were direct funding either in the private sector that was constructing the drones like that, what the United States have received, well, the exchange of information.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
The United States, without the war, would never have received the knowledge. I'm not saying that war is good. That's horrible. But whenever we're saying what the United States have received, for example, when there were some programs, when the United States had funded the weapons and they were transferring information
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
the Patriots to us, and we are grateful to the United States, first of all, for this. They know that all the air defense systems that we had, different shells, there is artillery shells, even 155 shells could be different, the HIMARS, et cetera, all that Ukraine have been using, Ukraine provided the reports to the United States, and Ukraine has improved many of the elements and specifications
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
by our engineers, by our people on the ground. They've improved the specifications of the weapons. The United States have received a true report based on the largest land operation, land war in many years. So now the United States know where to invest the money, where not to invest the money. I know those conclusions, but this is not public information.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
But the United States have received this knowledge, this data. And this knowledge could not be acquired without the live operations that the United States have provided money to the development of different drones. Surely it's all about our special forces, recon, intelligence, security service of Ukraine, foreign intelligence. These are the separate money. They are part of those $105 billion.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
So this is where the scientists were working, the recon, the intelligence, the military engineers were working. Now, what the United States have received, when the United States have paid for those developments, the United States have received complete and open information on the drones. This is the new weapons that was not available to the United States, to Europe, and surely we didn't have it.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Now, the United States have received all this experience, all this know-how and developments. Now, I'm not... willing to say that it's a cheap price for all of those developments. We are grateful to every single cent paid by the United States. But this is the fair price, so to say. The knowledge, the experience, you know, that the whole world is based on the knowledge.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And I believe that this is what the United States have received. Then how are medics being operating on the battlefield? Everyone knows about this. There's medical points or medical stations close to the battlefield where the military surgeries have been taking place. There's medical assistance of different sort that has been provided.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Now, all this knowledge, all this experience were transferred to our partners. They've seen that they could make conclusions. They supported the people. The United States, together with Europeans, have provided the support to the people. And I can give you the conclusions. You can compare the number of killed and the number of casualties.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Now, I'm not comparing the Russian army with the Ukrainian army, but look at the portion of... the wounded in action and killed in action, we have the portion of the wounded in action the lowest. If we have 1 to 10, that is 1 killed, we have 10 wounded in action. Now, in case of Russians, in case of 10 casualties, there will be 5 killed in action or 6 by 4.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
So we're saying that's a different level of medical support. And that knowledge was also provided to our partners. Now, what exactly the United States have received as well. This is the most important thing that I have not mentioned yet. Let's be frank.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
The people in the world, they believe that we are a living kind of fence against Russia's invasion to the civilized world, including the NATO member nations. And we are kind of a living shield. We are defending this. So if Putin will come to the NATO member countries or when he will do that, I don't...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
believe that I know everything in advance but let's just imagine because everyone see who they have case with so putting might go to the European countries now in this case there would be a need to defend the European nations or to leave the NATO. I'm not saying whether the United States should be doing that or not. That's the choice made by the people of the United States and other allies.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
But this is a question that will definitely be on the agenda. So as long as Russians are not in any single NATO member nation, your families are not facing with this question. So there will be a major question for your families either to send your child to the war or not, to the other country, to some foreign country. So that's the kind of question.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Now, the cost of the United States not searching and the families are not searching for an answer to this complicated question of whether to send their son or daughter, whether they will return home, like, alive or wounded.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Nobody knows the cost of that question, whether the United States is the kind of the most, the richest economy in the world, whether this is the biggest amount paid for what's being provided. I'm not saying that's a small amount. I'm saying that this is the fair, this is fair. It's fair that you...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
United States assisted and supported Ukraine, and Ukraine gave away a lot in return for that support and assistance. And of course, the most precious thing we have is the life of our people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Well, first of all, I'm very happy that you're here, that you had a chance to take a look. And really, we have a meeting like that a couple of times per year, and I truly visit some of the church sites, and during the Easter, there's the Easter meetings, and we have a meeting with all of our religious institutions, and I believe that what Ukraine has, and that is the largest council of churches,
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
the largest in Europe. All of our churches are united, different religions, and everyone is united. So we are considering the question, there is the problem in military chaplains, the mobilization of pastors or in other... or priests. There's different questions. We help one another.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We believe that the religious actors, if they're on the front line, it could be only through their will voluntarily and they should be supporting military now. If those religious actors, if they're willing to do that, we are kind of considering every single question. We do not believe that these are the major challenges because we are having meetings.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And if you have a regular meeting, so if you have a regular dialogue, then all the big challenges, they kind of remain but only small ones, and in many cases we solve those challenges, but they're not catastrophic, they're not tragic for the country and for the religious unity that we have in Ukraine, and we are openly doing that. They advocate what you've heard abroad.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
They have one single voice, different faith, but single voice. Nobody's pressing anyone. So today, Sviatoslav went to prepare to... He went to Rome, and there's all those ceremonies around the Pope Francis. So Sviatoslav went there, went to Rome. He needs that. That's correct. And I'm also planning, together with my wife, to have a visit. We'll have several meetings around the same dates.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Now, as for the pressure, there's no pressure, and you will never hear anything about the pressure because we don't have any additional dialogues with our religious institutions or religious leaders. There's no shadow practices. We're absolutely open, transparent. There could be cameras. We're no cameras. We're absolutely open. Everyone can tell you there's no pressure.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
That's non-existent, and every holidays we are together. We have people from different religions, and we're always inviting everyone. That's important. As for the Moscow church, look, the question is not about the Moscow church. The question is that in case of Russia, Moscow is just another agency of the KGB. Everyone knows that Russia's special services are in control of the churches.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Well, this is how they have. That's their choice. And their people... either support that or not. Well, that's their choice. That's their right. And we've never raised this question before the war and during the war. But that's a fact that their special services are in control of the prayer church. The problem was that their special forces was in control of the churches in Ukraine. That's not...
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
the truth that the church should be equal and the Moscow could not be in control of our church. Their KGB, their intelligence could not be in control or could not be managing the Ukrainian church. Well, they shouldn't be here. So the legislative changes in Ukraine are related to the fact that there could be no connection in between of the Moscow and the church. Nobody closed
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
anything or anyone, but it can't be the case that Russia's KGB is in control of the church in Ukraine. Everyone is against this legal ties. So it's not only about the ties at the level of intelligence. There was a legal connection, legal ties for many years, but That shouldn't be the case. We shouldn't be having disputes or controversies around whose church is older than the others.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And Ukraine shouldn't be speaking about this. Look, we're sitting here close to the Sofia Cathedral. Sofia is older than Russia's capital city and any churches they have. This building is older than that. That's the answer. We shouldn't have any disputes. We have scientific evidence as we're just saying that our church should be free from any authorities. It's free for the people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Every single case is scrutinized by the land forces, by the Ministry of Defense. They're the one responsible for the mobilization. And it can have a different attitude towards mobilization, but we have this mobilization from the beginning of the war. It's in accordance to the legislation, in accordance to the martial law period. So the country is in a war. That is why we do have mobilization.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We want the war to end. We want everything to end. We want to have a fair peace, calmness, and there would be nothing, not the mobilization, not the martial law. But as long as the war, as long as we have the law, there is the mobilization. That is why there were different aspects, like someone suggested money, someone took money for going or not going to the army.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
There's different approaches or there are different cases, but we shouldn't be saying that this is the major phase or the main thing that describes Ukraine today, no. Ukraine has 800,000 right now, or 600,000 people who volunteered to go to the army. That was the law on mobilization, but the people were volunteering to go and defend Ukraine. Definitely, there is, well, there's different people.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And I think there's different people in every country. And the law enforcement personnel should be making sure that everything would be transparent. There would be no coercion or something. There are some kind of... disadvantages. That's a fact. We shouldn't be hiding that like a corruption. But if we have any anti-corruption bodies, there's the security service of Ukrainians.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
If we are fighting with this on an everyday basis, well, of course, you can hide it like everything as in the case of Russia or some European countries. But Ukraine... clearly shows that it is fighting on a constant basis against aspects like that. But those are kind of singular cases. This is not massive. That's more important, and that should be reducing on a daily basis. We're doing that.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
this meeting, our teams had plenty of meetings. Well, not enough of meetings to put an end to this war, but still there were positive meetings, there were meetings that were fruitful, and our teams have agreed that everyone will support the complete ceasefire mode. And that was a meeting in Saudi Arabia. Then there was another meeting. Then it was a meeting in France.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
Tomorrow, by the way, there will be a meeting in London. So as you can see, what's important to us is the teams of Ukraine and the United States, plus our European colleagues. That is, our team has started to work together. together with the United States, and I can see some positive things about this.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
I'm grateful to this, to all the partners, and I'm grateful to President Trump for this, as well as to Kiri Starmer and to Emmanuel Macron, and to all the leaders who constantly support this very beginning, the complete ceasefire. It's the beginning of the path towards the stable and hopefully fair and just peace
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And that is why I think we do have good meetings right now, and I would say good possibilities. Now the question is Russia, and that is the only element in this construct that is not yet ready to put an end to this war.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
And we hope on the strength of the United States, on the strength in terms of the sanctions, on the experience of the United States, and the influence that the United States has on Russia. So for Russia to agree to put an end to this war, it depends on them. As for our meeting in the Oval Office, I kept saying that we needed this meeting. We had to talk over a variety of elements.
The Ben Shapiro Show
Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky
We had different meetings, fruitful and more philosophic meetings, I would say, on different stages of our lives. And the meeting with President Trump as well. So, I think that the meeting in the Oval Office, it did not help Ukraine, it did not help to the United States. When Ukraine and the United States are having the meeting, we should give light to people.
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The war is in Europe and America is far from the invasion and I think that we need to share more details because to my mind there are a lot of different voices around new American administration and I'm not sure that all these voices are on our side.