Zelensky: God is taking our side
Zelensky's address. Photo: Office of the President
On August 24, 2026, Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Ukrainians with a speech in which he congratulated the people on the 35th anniversary of the country's independence and stated that God is taking Ukraine's side.
According to him, today «hundreds of thousands of volunteers are going to defend their homeland». The President assured that people of various professions are becoming soldiers exclusively of their own free will. And from them Zelensky receives «a particle of their greatness, their strength».
«These and hundreds of thousands of other chevrons on the shoulders of our defenders are charged with light, which God sees in the heavens and takes our side», – he stated.
Zelensky also hinted that he is counting on the imminent death of the President of the Russian Federation. «We know that he is mortal. He never understood us, and now he will not have time to», – the head of the Ukrainian state emphasized.
Previously, the Union of Orthodox Journalists reported that, according to Zelensky, God will bless that Putin does not live long.
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