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Throughout a remarkably combative Oval Office meeting on Friday, each President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance informed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he was insufficiently grateful.
“You must be grateful. You don’t have the playing cards,” Trump said, adding a bit later, “You gotta be extra grateful.”
“Have you ever stated thanks as soon as this whole assembly?” Vance asked.
Trump may need been referring to Zelensky’s posture towards Trump particularly, as Vance gave the impression to be. However as their heated trade with Zelensky reverberates around the globe, it’s price noting that Zelensky has thanked the USA on quite a few events since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022 – expressing gratitude to Trump and President Joe Biden, to members of Congress from each events, to US protection corporations and their staff, and to the American folks.
After Zelensky left the White Home on Friday, he wrote on X: “Thanks America, thanks in your assist, thanks for this go to. Thanks @POTUS, Congress, and the American folks. Ukraine wants simply and lasting peace, and we’re working precisely for that.”
Listed below are 33 earlier examples of Zelensky thanking or expressing gratitude towards the USA, its officers or its folks for his or her assist. This isn’t a complete record. Notably, we didn’t overview Zelensky’s many home remarks in Ukrainian.
January 21, 2022, on X: “Thanks @POTUS for the unprecedented (American) diplomatic and navy help for (Ukraine).”
July 1, 2022, on X: “I commend US historic determination to supply UA with new safety help package deal, together with trendy air protection programs. Thanks @POTUS in your continued management and assist of UA in its struggle in opposition to the aggressor. Collectively in the direction of the victory!”
August 19, 2022, on X: “I extremely recognize one other (American) navy help package deal within the quantity of $775 million. Thanks @POTUS for this determination! We have now taken one other essential step to defeat the aggressor. (Ukraine) will probably be free!”
December 21, 2022, meeting with Biden: “Thanks a lot, Mr. President. After all thanks bipartisan assist. Thanks Congress. And thanks from our, simply, odd folks to your odd folks, People. I actually recognize.”
December 21, 2022, address to US Congress: “Now, on this particular Christmastime, I wish to thanks, all of you. I thank each American household which cherishes the heat of its residence and desires the identical heat to different folks. I thank President Biden and each events, on the Senate and the Home, in your invaluable help. I thank your cities and your residents who supported Ukraine this 12 months, who hosted our Ukrainians, our folks, who waved our nationwide flags, who acted to assist us. Thanks all, from everybody who’s now on the entrance line, from everybody who’s awaiting victory.” And: “Monetary help can also be critically essential, and I want to thanks, thanks very a lot, thanks for each monetary packages you have got already supplied us with and those you might be prepared to resolve on.”
September 21, 2023, meeting with Biden: “Thanks a lot, Mr. President, so heat and robust phrases to all of the Ukrainians from you. Thanks. Thanks, recognize – I’m glad to satisfy you…Thanks for the invitation. Our common dialogue is proof that our international locations are actually, really allies and strategic buddies. And we significantly recognize that important help supplied by the USA to Ukraine to fight Russian terror, actually terror.”
September 21, 2023, address at the National Archives: “There may be not a single soul right here in the present day who wouldn’t care what occurs to freedom. And there may be not a soul in Ukraine that doesn’t really feel gratitude to you, America. To you – the individuals who assist us not as a result of it’s a must to, however as a result of your coronary heart can not allow you to do in any other case. Thanks. That’s humanity. That is what makes us Ukraine. That’s what makes you America.” And: “Thanks, America!”
November 20, 2023, on X: “I’m grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, US Congress, and your complete American folks for the brand new navy help package deal introduced in the present day.”
November 23, 2023, on X: “On behalf of all Ukrainians, Olena @ZelenskaUA and I want all People a cheerful Thanksgiving. We thanks, the folks of America. We all know what number of of you sincerely sympathize with our wrestle and need Ukraine victory. We noticed what number of of you took to coronary heart the unlawful and unprovoked assault on Ukraine and felt that it was additionally an assault in your values. Because of American assist and world management, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives have been saved. Ukraine is grateful to you!”
December 6, 2023, on X: “I’m grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, Congress, and the American folks for the brand new navy help package deal introduced in the present day.”
December 11, 2023, on X: “I met with leaders of US protection corporations and expressed my gratitude to each American employee who manufactures weapons that assist us safeguard our folks and defend our land.” The publish included a video clip from a Zelensky assembly with US protection business executives, by which he stated, “I wish to thanks, all of you, and your companions, and naturally please move from me messages to your employees, individuals who actually work – they usually did quite a bit for Ukraine.”
December 11, 2023, speech at the National Defense University: “I wish to begin by saying because of (Protection) Secretary (Lloyd) Austin. An enormous man, huge good friend of Ukraine. Thanks very a lot in your – private – no actually, thanks in your private management throughout this time, for supporting us, supporting Ukraine, and defending all free world. Chairman (Charles Q.) Brown, thanks in your imaginative and prescient and assist. And particular because of (Navy) Secretary (Carlos) Del Toro and (Military) Secretary (Christine) Wormuth, for all of your invaluable assist to the Ukrainian Navy and Military. Thanks very a lot.” And: “I thanks, America, in your assist.”
December 12, 2023, joint press conference with Biden: “I’m glad to be right here and personally thanks and let you know how Ukraine values what we’ve achieved collectively defending life and freedom.” And: “And we’ve proven no – no Russian missiles can overdo the highly effective American Patriot programs. Thanks very a lot.” And: “First, air protection and destroying Russian logistics on Ukraine’s land. Mr. President, thanks very a lot in your supporting – supporting us and in these areas – like our victory within the Black Sea.” And: “At this time’s discussions within the White Home and in Congress, throughout each events and each chambers, with the Speaker have been very productive. And I thanks for the bipartisan assist.” And: “Thanks very a lot, Mr. President. Thanks, America.”
January 16, 2024, on X: “I met with @SecBlinken to thank the USA, President Biden, Congress, and the American folks for his or her unwavering assist and management in supporting Ukraine.”
March 12, 2024, on X: “I thank @POTUS Joe Biden, his administration, Congress, and the American folks for the $300 million navy help package deal that addresses Ukraine’s quick wants for artillery, antitank weapons, and air protection.”
March 20, 2024, on X: “At this time, I hosted Nationwide Safety Advisor to @POTUS @JakeSullivan46 for a significant and centered assembly. I’m grateful to the USA for supporting our nation and folks. It is important that American management in defending worldwide order stays agency.”
April 20, 2024, on Telegram and X, after Congress handed a invoice to supply extra help to Ukraine: “Thanks, America!”
Might 24, 2024, on X: “I’m grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, U.S. Congress and its each events, in addition to the American folks for the brand new navy help package deal introduced in the present day.”
June 7, 2024, meeting with Biden: “Thanks a lot, Mr. President. To begin with, thanks a lot in your vital assist – you, your administration. We’re very grateful from all Ukrainians to your navy assist, monetary assist, humanitarian one. And, after all, it’s essential…It’s essential that you simply stick with us. This bipartisan assist with the Congress – it’s essential that on this unity, the USA of America, all American folks stick with Ukraine. Prefer it was throughout World Conflict Two, how the USA helped to save lots of human lives, to save lots of Europe – and we depend in your persevering with assist and standing with us shoulder to shoulder. Thanks a lot.”
June 13, 2024, joint press conference with Biden: “Mr. President, thanks, your group. I might additionally wish to thank the USA Congress for his or her assist — each events, each chambers. Thanks. And because of each American coronary heart that doesn’t betray freedom and helps us.”
June 13, 2024, message to Ukrainians: “Importantly, the settlement with the USA now stipulates assist for Ukraine each throughout wartime and in peacetime. It’s really long-term. We have now the identical imaginative and prescient of peace – peace that’s only for our folks. Thanks, President Biden, thanks to each events and chambers of Congress, thanks, America!”
July 3, 2024, on X: “I’m grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, each events in Congress, and your complete American folks for in the present day’s navy help packages.”
July 4, 2024, on X: “Thanks, America. Thanks to each American coronary heart that beats in solidarity with courageous Ukrainian hearts preventing for independence. I want the USA and all People power, unity, and unwavering perception within the triumph of excellent over evil, liberty over tyranny, and life over terror. #4thOfJuly”
July 9, 2024, address at Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute: “Mr. (Mitch) McConnell, I’m grateful in your firmness in defending freedom, and in your visits to Ukraine to see how essential it’s to win, to win now. To prevail over the Russian warfare and terror.” And: “And all these steps would strengthen us – as in the present day’s distinctive determination of the US and companions to supply Ukraine with extra 5 Patriot air protection programs and dozens of others, and prioritize air protection interceptors for Ukraine. Ukrainian persons are grateful for that. Thanks a lot!”
July 11, 2024, meeting with Biden: “And I’m grateful to you; your group; your administration; after all, Congress – each events, each chambers; and all People – for his or her important and your sturdy assist of Ukraine and Ukrainian folks.”
July 11, 2024, on X: “We recognize President Joe Biden’s determination to strengthen our air defenses with 5 new Patriot programs and dozens of different programs. This sturdy determination will assist us fight Russian terror. I’m grateful to President @POTUS, his group, the administration, Congress – each events, each homes – and your complete American folks for his or her important assist of the Ukrainians. Collectively, we’re saving lives of our folks.”
July 21, 2024, on X: “Ukraine is grateful to President Biden for his unwavering assist for Ukraine’s struggle for freedom, which, together with sturdy bipartisan assist in the USA, has been and continues to be vital…We’ll all the time be pleased about President Biden’s management. He supported our nation throughout essentially the most dramatic second in historical past, assisted us in stopping Putin from occupying our nation, and has continued to assist us all through this horrible warfare.”
September 6, 2024, on X: “I’m grateful to @POTUS Joe Biden, each events in Congress, and the American folks for the safety help package deal introduced in the present day.”
September 22, 2024, remarks at ammunition factory in Pennsylvania: “You stated that 400 folks work right here. However I wished very a lot to come back right here and thanks; 400 folks saved hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians, due to the results of your work. I’m very grateful. Simply from odd Ukrainians to you.”
September 26, 2024, meeting with Biden: “Mr. President, thanks in your sturdy assist, for the choices which can be serving to us defend Ukraine, Ukrainians, our hope. We deeply recognize that Ukraine and America have stood aspect by aspect from the very first moments of this horrible Russian invasion. Your willpower is extremely essential for us to prevail.”
December 7, 2024, on X: “I had an excellent and productive trilateral assembly with President @realDonaldTrump and President @EmmanuelMacron on the Élysée Palace. President Trump is, as all the time, resolute. I thank him. I additionally prolong my gratitude to Emmanuel for organizing this essential assembly.”
January 10, 2025, on X: “I spoke with @POTUS and expressed my condolences over the devastating wildfires in California and the tragic lack of lives…I additionally thanked him for the unwavering assist of Ukraine’s independence and for the important position the USA has performed in uniting the worldwide group.”
February 12, 2025, on X: “I had a significant dialog with @POTUS. We lengthy talked about alternatives to attain peace, mentioned our readiness to work collectively on the group stage, and Ukraine’s technological capabilities—together with drones and different superior industries. I’m grateful to President Trump for his curiosity in what we are able to accomplish collectively.”
