Top 30 Ukrainian Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Ukrainian Quotes from famous people such as Volodymyr Zelensky, Viktor Yanukovych, Nina Arianda, Yulia Tymoshenko, Vera Farmiga, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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I’m sure that in the future, every part of the world will recognize that Holodomor is a huge tragedy for Ukraine, and was actually the destruction of Ukrainian people.
Volodymyr Zelensky
I have never allowed anti-Russian rhetoric in Ukrainian policy toward such a strategic partner like Russia. This is the first point. I never went against the interests of the Ukrainian state and the Ukrainian people.
Viktor Yanukovych
When I was a kid, my daily routine was playing make-believe, and I kind of created these stories throughout the day. And when it came time to go to preschool, my English wasn’t really so great because my mother wanted me to learn Ukrainian, so she signed me up for these children’s theater groups.
Nina Arianda
I think everyone remembers how certain Russian bureaucrats used to work against the Ukrainian opposition; I think it is hard to drop old habits.
Yulia Tymoshenko
I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family’s faith.
Vera Farmiga
I do not want war. I am not seeking revenge, even though I can see before my eyes the great sacrifices made by the Ukrainian people. I am seeking peace and will achieve Ukraine’s unity.
Petro Poroshenko
To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin’s calculus and increase the risk to him and to Russia for moving combat forces closer to Kiev.
Mike Pompeo
Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
Tariq Ali
No-one will protect us unless we learn to protect us ourselves… Our army should become one of the elites of Ukrainian society… The word ‘general’ should not be associated with the word ‘corruption’ but the word ‘hero.’
Petro Poroshenko
Honoring the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, in which more than two million Ukrainian Jews died, Ukraine calls on Israel to also recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
Volodymyr Zelensky
I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don’t recognize me most of the time, thank God.
Neko Case
My mother is Ukrainian. She immigrated to the U.S. from Canada as a child.
Bob Schaffer
I wholeheartedly support the aspirations of the Ukrainian people for a democratic, free and just society where the rule of law prevails without corruption or government violence directed against citizens.
Marcy Kaptur
The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Viktor Yushchenko
I mean, I’m a Ukrainian immigrant from Brooklyn who grew up dancing and playing the violin!
Valentin Chmerkovskiy
I am Ukrainian and fighting like a Ukrainian.
Oleksandr Usyk
The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider’s web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights – the ‘family’ and its closest circle?
Yulia Tymoshenko
NATO cannot accept that the unconstitutional coup in Ukraine has not led to the subjugation of the whole Ukrainian nation.
Sergei Lavrov
I refuse to be part of an effort to legitimize an alternate narrative that the Ukrainian government is a U.S. adversary, and that Ukraine – not Russia – attacked us in 2016.
Fiona Hill
Frankly speaking, we don’t see any other way for the steady development of the Ukrainian state apart from as a federation.
Sergei Lavrov
We cannot have a president of the United States that is willing to abuse the power of the office of the presidency and be easily bought off by foreign governments, Chinese energy companies, Ukrainian energy companies.
Marjorie Taylor Greene
I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.
Yulia Tymoshenko
One of the problems in the Ukrainian crisis is that very few Westerners know their history, or if they know it, what they learn is what we call the Russian version of history.
Norman Davies
The Canadian government has had a field day apologising for past policies towards a series of ethnic groups: Italian, Ukrainian, Sikh, Chinese, Japanese and Jews.
Margaret MacMillan
The allegations surrounding whether President Trump pressured the Ukrainian leader to investigate the family of his political rival is, if true, a disgraceful betrayal of the oath of office and demands immediate action by Congress.
Amy McGrath
My father was an amateur oil painter, so some of his oil paintings were on our walls. There was one above the piano of a famous Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko, playing an instrument known as a bandura. I remember that one kind of resonated with me; it was always central in the living room.
Edward Burtynsky
For me, it is very important that we listen to the voice of the investors, not only the voice of the Ukrainian government officials, parliamentarians, or the president.
Petro Poroshenko
I don’t really know what ‘American’ is. I know what Ukrainian is. We’re happy Slavic people. We’re not Dostoyevsky Slavic people. There’s this sense of ‘pick it up, get your hands dirty, make the best of it, celebrate.’
Nina Arianda
Though there is growing division among the Ukrainian military ranks as to loyalty in this revolution, the possibility of violence looms over the entire situation.
Bob Schaffer
Ukraine had quite serious impact on the many Russians. They could see that ordinary people in Ukraine which is a bordering state, very close to Russia, the people of this state are, they didn’t want to tolerate anymore the power abuse by Ukrainian officials.
Garry Kasparov