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10/15Government of Ukraine: Zelensky said on 15 October that Ukraine's three-day pause in strikes on Russian refineries, held to accommodate Trump's announced energy ceasefire, was over, telling reporters "We're done", the Kyiv Independent reported. Trump said the refinery strikes were driving up world fuel prices. Moscow airports were then repeatedly closed as Ukrainian drone attacks resumed.

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09/23Government of Ukraine: At the UN General Assembly, Zelensky said Putin is the only driving force of the war, that nearly 249,000 Russian troops were reportedly killed or seriously wounded in the first eight months of 2026, and called for stronger sanctions and joint air defence. He also announced the handover of two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea.

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09/23Government of Ukraine: Speaking at the UN General Assembly general debate, President Zelensky said the Russian army lost 248,964 people from January through August 2026, describing them as dead and severely wounded.

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09/01Government of Ukraine: Zelensky said Russian airspace was becoming completely dangerous because of Ukrainian drones and would be de facto closed, urging airlines, insurers and ambassadors to factor in the risk to flights to Moscow, St Petersburg and other hubs, while saying Ukraine does not threaten civil aviation. He said Ukraine would clear Russian skies for set periods when partners asked, as for CIA Director John Ratcliffe's 25 August trip to Moscow.

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07/31Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky said about 700,000 Russian soldiers had been killed, within about 1.6 million Russian casualties, in an interview with Fox News.

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07/31Government of Ukraine: In an interview with Fox News, President Zelensky said Ukraine had about 50,000 soldiers killed and about 400,000 wounded, and claimed Russia had about 1.6 million losses including around 700,000 dead. Ukrainska Pravda noted he had given a figure of 55,000 killed in February 2026.

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06/18Government of Ukraine: Zelensky called the strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery an entirely justified response to Russian strikes, saying 'If Ukraine burns, so will Moscow'.

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06/07Government of Ukraine: Zelensky called the drone strike on the Chornobyl spent fuel storage site an exceptionally cowardly Russian attack carried out with a Shahed-type drone and said radiation safety limits were not exceeded.

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05/08Government of Ukraine: Zelensky said Ukraine agreed to the three-day ceasefire partly to free prisoners, writing that Red Square mattered less than the lives of Ukrainian prisoners of war, and decreed the Victory Day parade off-limits to Ukrainian strikes.

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04/16Government of Ukraine: Zelensky urged partners to fulfil every promise of aid on time, having said earlier in April that the shortage of air defence missiles could not be any worse.

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03/22Government of Ukraine: After the Miami talks, Zelensky said signals suggested prisoner exchanges could continue and stressed that the aggressor should not be rewarded.

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02/14Government of Ukraine: At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said territorial concessions would not bring peace, comparing them to the 1938 Munich Agreement. He said the US had offered a 15-year security guarantee while Kyiv wanted at least 20 years, and that Ukraine could hold elections after a ceasefire.

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01/23Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky called the Donbas a key issue in the Abu Dhabi talks and said Russia must also show it wants peace. He said he and Trump had agreed on post-war security guarantees at Davos.

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12/15Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky said after the Berlin talks that any format of Donbas under Russian control was unacceptable to him and that the sides still had different positions on territory.

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06/01Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's SBU said its drone operation had hit 41 Russian military aircraft used against Ukraine, worth a combined $7bn.

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05/11Government of Ukraine: Zelensky said he would be waiting for Putin in Turkey on Thursday "personally", while Ukraine and its European allies maintained that a 30-day ceasefire should come first.

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04/06Government of Ukraine: Energoatom chief executive Petro Kotin said it would be unsafe for Russia to restart the occupied Zaporizhzhia plant because of insufficient cooling water, personnel and incoming power, and that Ukraine would need up to two years in peacetime to restart it if it regained control.

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03/19Government of Ukraine: After a call with Trump, Zelensky said they had discussed only one power plant, the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, after Trump suggested the US could own and run Ukrainian nuclear plants as part of a ceasefire.

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02/23Government of Ukraine: Zelensky told a news conference he was ready to give up the presidency if that achieved peace, and could trade it for Nato membership, responding days after Trump called him a dictator.

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12/13Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky said Russia launched 93 missiles, including at least one North Korean-made missile, and almost 200 drones at Ukraine's energy system, with 81 missiles shot down.

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10/18Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov told The War Zone that about 11,000 North Korean infantry were training in eastern Russia, would be ready to fight by 1 November, and that a first group of 2,600 was due to go to Kursk Oblast.

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06/14Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky rejected Putin's conditions as ultimatums, and adviser Mykhailo Podolyak called the proposal a complete sham.

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04/16Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky told PBS NewsHour that Russia destroyed the Trypilska power plant because Ukraine had run out of air defence missiles, saying 11 missiles were fired, 7 were shot down and 4 hit the plant.

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02/25Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky said about 31,000 Ukrainian soldiers had been officially recorded as killed, and claimed 180,000 Russian soldiers were killed and 500,000 killed or wounded; he declined to give a figure for Ukrainian wounded.

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02/09Government of Ukraine: National Security and Defence Council secretary Oleksii Danilov said there were no Ukrainian prisoners of war on the Il-76 and that Russia's claim was fabricated, arguing Russia would have filmed the site if prisoners had died there.

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01/25Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said crash-site images showed no sign of a large number of people aboard the Il-76 and that some prisoners Russian sources listed as dead had already been exchanged.

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11/30Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said prisoner exchanges were not taking place because Russia did not want them, and accused Moscow of telling its public that Ukraine was doing nothing to bring its soldiers home.

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07/11Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky wrote that it was unprecedented and absurd for NATO to set no timeframe either for an invitation or for Ukraine's membership.

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06/16Government of Ukraine: Foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said the missile attack on Kyiv during the African leaders' visit was timed to it and showed Russia wanted more war, not peace.

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06/09Government of Ukraine: Ukraine's Security Service said it had intercepted a phone call showing a Russian sabotage group was responsible for destroying the dam; NBC said it could not verify the recording.

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06/06Government of Ukraine: Zelenskyy blamed Russian terrorists for destroying the Kakhovka dam; adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said Russia did it in a panic to slow Ukraine's counteroffensive.

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05/23Government of Ukraine: Deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar denied Ukrainian involvement in the Belgorod raid, saying Ukraine was not waging war on foreign territories.

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05/21Government of Ukraine: At the G7 summit in Hiroshima Zelenskyy said Russian forces had destroyed everything in Bakhmut, that for today it was only in our hearts and there was nothing left; his spokesman said he had not confirmed the city's capture.

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05/03Government of Ukraine: Zelenskyy, speaking in Helsinki, denied the Kremlin claim and said Ukraine did not attack Putin or Moscow and fought on its own territory.

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04/26Government of Ukraine: After his call with Xi Jinping, Zelenskyy said there could be no peace at the expense of territorial compromises.

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03/09Government of Ukraine: Ukrainian security council secretary Oleksiy Danilov claimed Ukraine lost one soldier for every seven Russians in Bakhmut.

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01/05Government of Ukraine: Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said a truce would be possible only if Russia left the occupied territories, and called the Russian church's truce call a propaganda trap; Zelenskyy said Russia wanted a pause to bring in more equipment.

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12/10Government of Ukraine: Zelenskyy said the occupiers had destroyed Bakhmut, another Donbas city that the Russian army had turned into burned ruins, and that the situation in front-line cities in Donetsk and Luhansk remained very difficult.

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11/16Government of Ukraine: Zelenskyy said he was sure the missile that hit Przewodow was Russian and that Ukraine's air defences had been firing, and on 17 November said Ukrainian experts would join the investigation and the crater's size suggested it was not caused by parts of an interceptor.

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08/22Government of Ukraine: Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak dismissed the FSB account as Russian propaganda, and National Security Council secretary Oleksiy Danilov said Ukraine's special services had nothing to do with the killing.

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04/18Government of Ukraine: President Zelensky said Russian troops had begun the battle for Donbas, which they had been preparing for a long time, and that no matter how many Russian troops were sent there, Ukraine would fight.

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