# Zelensky Addresses Yanukovych and Putin, Calls for Ukrainian Unity - Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119480365794386399 - Source account: [@TeaTramRussia](https://x.com/TeaTramRussia) - Source language: Russian - Target language: English - Duration: 3:59 - Published: 2026-11-08 - Machine translated. 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[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=9) A man who needs no introduction, Volodymyr Zelensky. [0:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=12) Volodya, please! Good evening. Good evening! Good evening, everyone. [0:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=16) Ah, thank you so much for inviting me. It seems to me that today we aren’t divided into famous and unknown, eloquent and ordinary. [0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=23) Absolutely. We are all Ukrainians, and that’s what unites us. [0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=25) It’s a wonderful unity. It’s in our souls, in the heart of each one of us. [0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=30) We are all going through this today. You know, I’ll try to be as tolerant as possible, as everyone likes to say these days, and brief. [0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=37) Usually, I speak sharply in a joking way, today I’ll speak sharply, but without joking. [0:43](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=43) I want to be brief, and address specific people, not in general, but directly, on my own behalf. [0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=50) First of all, I want to address uh, Mr. Yanukovych. [0:55](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=55) Dear Mr. Yanukovych, I know you personally, we've met more than once. [0:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=59) You are a strong man. More than once, you, uh, appealed to my reason and said that I should, it seems, be tolerant, and not joke so harshly. [1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=68) I didn't listen to you. I didn't listen to you. Nevertheless, you never shut down the program “Evening Quarter”, because you did the right thing. [1:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=75) You were wise then, and strong. Today, you must remember that you are a strong man, and step aside. [1:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=80) There is no more history with you. You are no longer the president of Ukraine. [1:24](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=84) That is what the people of our country decided. [1:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=86) Believe me, in both the west and the east, in my beloved Kryvyi Rih, in every city, I'm sure, everyone thinks that President Yanukovych is no longer part of history. [1:38](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=98) Step aside. First. Do not allow any possibility of separatism. [1:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=104) Stop broadcasting at press conferences. I'm not interested anymore. This is boring. Sorry. [1:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=109) Leave. And secondly, I want to address our current government. [1:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=114) I could say many unflattering things, but we're on a respected channel, and I'll show you respect, and I ask you to respect the people. [2:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=123) If people in the east and Crimea want to speak Russian, leave them alone. Stop bothering them. [2:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=131) Legally, give them the opportunity to speak Russian. [2:14](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=134) Language will never divide our homeland. [2:18](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=138) I have Jewish blood, I speak Russian, but I'm a citizen of Ukraine. [2:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=142) I love this country and don't want to be part of another country. [2:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=146) Third. By the way, you promised that— you said our government was made up entirely of people from Donetsk and that we'd do things differently. [2:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=152) Now in our country, in the government, rather, there's no one from Donetsk. [2:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=157) And you promised us a government that cares, will take care of all the regions of our country, our united country. [2:45](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=165) Third. I very much want to address Mr. Putin. [2:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=169) Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich, do not allow, on your part, even the slightest hint of a military conflict, because Russia and Ukraine—we really are brotherly peoples. [3:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=180) I know millions, I know thousands of people who live in Russia, wonderful people. [3:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=186) We are the same color, and we have the same blood. [3:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=189) We all understand one another, regardless of language. [3:12](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=192) If you want, well, speaking personally, I tell you honestly, I'm ready. I don't know if you need me to, but I can beg you on my knees, but please don't bring our people to their knees. [3:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=203) And I want to address our Ukrainians. Guys, we are a great people, and you are a great people. [3:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=211) We are absolutely one country. We all love one another immensely. [3:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=216) Neither Europe nor Russia. Think only of yourselves. [3:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=220) If God can't help us today, then may reason and love help us. [3:47](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=227) I love you. That's all. Volodya, with Jews like these, we are a great people. [3:52](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=232) Thank you. Thank you. I'll joke like that. [3:54](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/dpHuqgLyweQ9/en/zelensky-addresses-yanukovych-and-putin-calls-for-ukrainian-unity?t=234) It's nothing. Thank you. Ahh