President Zelensky

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The Ben Shapiro Show · Ep. 2185 - My Journey To Ukraine and My Interview With Zelensky · 24 Apr 2025 podcast

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So that's it. And I kept saying all the time, it's not that I'm...

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

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.

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...

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