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1 Early life and education  





2 Military career  



2.1  20212024: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine  







3 Post military career  





4 Military ranks  





5 Awards  





6 Legacy  





7 Family  





8 Notes  





9 References  



9.1  Information  





9.2  Interviews  







10 External links  














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Valerii Zaluzhnyi
Валерій Залужний
Official portrait, 2021

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to the United Kingdom

Incumbent

Assumed office
7 March 2024

President

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Prime Minister

Denys Shmyhal

Preceded by

Vadym Prystaiko

Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

In office
27 July 2021 – 8 February 2024

President

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Prime Minister

Denys Shmyhal

Preceded by

Ruslan Khomchak

Succeeded by

Oleksandr Syrskyi

Personal details

Born

(1973-07-08) 8 July 1973 (age 51)
Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
(now Zviahel, Ukraine)

Alma mater

1) Ivan Chernyakhovsky National Defense University of Ukraine
2) Odesa Military Academy
3) National University Ostroh Academy

Nickname

"Iron General"[1][2]

Military service

Allegiance

Ukraine

Years of service

1993–2024

Rank

General

Commands

1) Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
2) Operational Command North
3) Joint Operational Headquarters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
4) Operational Command West
5) 51st Guards Mechanized Brigade
6) 24th Guards Mechanized Brigade

Battles/wars

  • Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • Awards

  • Cross of Military Merit
  • Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd class
  • Officer's Cross of the Order of the Cross of Vytis
  • The insignia "Personalized firearm"
  • Zaluzhnyi with Colonel General Oleksandr Syrskyi (left) during the Battle of Kyiv, March 2022

    Valerii Fedorovych Zaluzhnyi[a] (Ukrainian: Вале́рій Фе́дорович Залу́жний; born 8 July 1973) is a Ukrainian four-star general and diplomat who is currently serving as Ambassador of Ukraine to the United Kingdom. He served as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from 27 July 2021 until 8 February 2024.[4][5] He was also concurrently a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

    Zaluzhnyi was previously the Commander of the North Operational Command (2019–2021), Chief of the Joint Operational Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine — First Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces (2018), Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander of the West Operational Command (2017), and Commander of the 51st Guards Mechanized Brigade (2009–2012).

    Zaluzhnyi was named by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2022.[6] He has received praise for his skill at "adapting to a fast-changing battlefield" through effective delegation and information gathering during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[7] He was dismissed from his position as Commander-in-Chief on 8 February 2024 amid increasing tension between him and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.[8]

    Zaluzhnyi was appointed the Ukrainian ambassador to the United Kingdom in March 2024.[9][10]

    Early life and education

    Zaluzhnyi was born on 8 July 1973 in Novohrad-Volynskyi, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union (now Zviahel, Ukraine). In 1989, Zaluzhnyi graduated from the city school No. 9 and entered the Zviahel Machine-Building Technical School, from which he graduated in 1991 with honors. He later entered the general military faculty of the Odesa Institute of Land Forces. In 1997, he graduated with honors from the institute, after which he passed all stages of military service: platoon commander, training platoon commander, combat platoon commander, training company commander, cadet company commander, and battalion commander.[11][12]

    Military career

    In 2005, he entered the National Academy of Defense of Ukraine. In 2007, he graduated with a gold medal and was appointed Chief of Staff and First Deputy Commander of the 24th Mechanized BrigadeinYavoriv, Lviv Oblast. He successfully served in this position for two and a half years.[13] In October 2009, he was appointed commander of the 51st Mechanized Brigade, which he led until 2012.[14]

    In 2014, Zaluzhnyi graduated from the Ivan Cherniakhovskyi National Defense University of Ukraine.[15] In 2017, he was appointed Chief of Staff – First Deputy Commander of the Operational Command West.[16] The next year, in 2018, Zaluzhnyi was appointed Chief of the Joint Operational Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine – First Deputy Commander of the Joint Forces.[17]

    According to an interview with The Washington Post, in 2019, Zaluzhnyi was detained at the airport in Brussels, where he had arrived to participate in the NATO summit. The reason was that he was put on the international wanted list at the request of the Russian Federation. During his detention by Interpol, he managed to call Ukraine's ambassador to NATO, who subsequently resolved the situation.[18][19]

    In December 2019, he was appointed Commander of the Operational Command North.[20] In December 2020 he graduated from the National University Ostroh Academy with a master's degree in International Relations.[21][22]

    2021–2024: Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    On 27 July 2021, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed Zaluzhnyi as Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,[23] replacing General Ruslan Khomchak in this position.[24][25] The following day he was also appointed as a member of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.[26]

    Zaluzhnyi is widely regarded as an open-minded officer.[27] Representing a new generation of Ukrainian officers, Zaluzhnyi has radically departed from established Soviet military practices.[23][28] One of his first steps in office was to allow the military at the front to open fire in response to the enemy without the consent of the upper leadership and eliminate the need for the military to fill out unnecessary documents.[29]

    Regarding his priorities as Commander-in-Chief, Zaluzhnyi said in 2021:

    The overall course of reforming Ukraine's Armed Forces in line with NATO principles and standards remains irreversible. And the key here is the principles. Changes must take place primarily in the worldview and attitude toward people. I would like you to turn your face to the people, to your subordinates. My attitude towards people has not changed throughout my service.[30]

    On 5 March 2022, 10 days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, President Zelenskyy promoted him to the rank of General,[31] the highest possible rank in the Ukrainian Armed Forces. International experts and analysts have given Zaluzhnyi high marks for the effectiveness of his command at the front against the Russian military.[32]

    Zaluzhny has been among the most popular people in Ukraine in 2022,[33] in January 2023, when he was liked by 87% of Ukrainian respondents and disliked by 4%,[34] and in December 2023 when 88% of Ukrainians expressed trust in Zaluzhnyi.[35]

    In January 2023, he received a US$1 million inheritance from Gregory Stepanets, a Ukrainian-American. Zaluzhny donated it all to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and humanitarian nonprofits in Ukraine.[36][37][38][39]

    In June 2023, Zaluzhnyi appealed to Western allies to supply Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets and MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles, saying Ukraine's counter-offensive was being slowed by a lack of modern fighter jets and artillery ammunition.[40] He told The Economist in an interview published on 1 November 2023, "Just like in the First World War we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate. There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough." Zaluzhnyi said he underestimated the Russian leadership's willingness to sacrifice its soldiers, saying that "Russia has lost at least 150,000 dead. In any other country such casualties would have stopped the war."[41] Zaluzhnyi's statement that the war had reached a "stalemate" was publicly criticized by President Zelenskyy.[8]

    In December 2023, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense led by Rustem Umerov proposed to mobilize 450,000 to 500,000 additional Ukrainian citizens, including Ukrainian men living abroad,[42][43] into the Ukrainian Armed Forces.[44] On 26 December, Zaluzhnyi said that the military command had not formally requested the mobilization, but the Ukrainian General Staff believed that 450-500,000 citizens should be mobilized to create new military units, while "forecasting the losses we may incur next year."[45]

    On 2 February 2024, Zaluzhnyi wrote that "the weakness of the international sanctions' regime means Russia … is still able to deploy its military-industrial complex in pursuit of a war of attrition against us. We must acknowledge the significant advantage enjoyed by [Russia] in mobilizing human resources and how that compares with the inability of state institutions in Ukraine to improve the manpower levels of our armed forces without the use of unpopular measures."[46] He concluded that "the number one priority here is mastery of an entire arsenal of (relatively) cheap, modern and highly effective, unmanned vehicles and other technological means. ...this means nothing less than the wholesale redesign of battlefield operations – and the abandoning of outdated, stereotypical thinking."[47]

    On 8 February 2024, Zaluzhnyi was replaced as Commander-in-Chief by Oleksandr Syrskyi, previously the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces.[48][49] Following his replacement, he was decorated with the award Hero of Ukraine by Zelenskyy.[50] The dismissal came amid increasing tension between him and Zelenskyy.[8] He was formally dismissed from the military by Zelenskky on "health grounds" on 9 May, but was allowed to wear a military uniform.[51]

    Post military career

    On 7 March 2024, President Zelenskyy named General Valerii Zaluzhnyi as the new Ukrainian ambassador to the UK.[52] As of May 2024, he is awaiting agrément and accreditation.

    Military ranks

    Awards

    Ukrainian
    Foreign

    Legacy

    In February 2023, the village of Vatutine, Kharkiv Oblast was set to be renamed Zaluzhne in honor of Zaluzhnyi.[64]

    Streets in Pokrov,[65] Stara Syniava,[66] Konotop,[67] and Malyn[68] are named after him.

    Family

    Zaluzhnyi is married with two daughters. His older daughter serves in the military, his younger is studying to become a physician.[69]

    Notes

    1. ^ Sometimes transliterated as ValeryorValeriy Zaluzhny[3]

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  • Information

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    External links

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    video icon Головнокомандувач ЗСУ Залужний: Хотів би проїхатися на танку по Арбату. Рандеву з Яніною СоколовоюonYouTube, 5 канал, 4 September 2021.

    video icon Валерій Залужний на Всеукраїнському форумі «Україна 30. Захисники»onYouTube, Конгрес місцевих та регіональних влад, 3 November 2021.

    video icon «Війна змінила мою долю»: історія головнокомандувача ЗСУ Валерія Залужного. Таємниці війниonYouTube, 5 канал, 2 December 2021.

    video icon Year. Off-screen. General. Special project of Dmytro Komarov. Part three [Eng + Ru subtitles]onYouTube, Світ навиворіт, 12 May 2023.

    Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

  • Valerii Zaluzhnyi
  • Oleksandr Syrskyi
  • Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

    Part of the Russo-Ukrainian War

    Overview

    General

  • Timeline
  • Feb – Apr 2022
  • Apr – Aug 2022
  • Aug – Nov 2022
  • Nov 2022 – Jun 2023
  • Jun – Aug 2023
  • Sep – Nov 2023
  • Dec 2023 – Mar 2024
  • Apr 2024 – present
  • Aerial warfare
  • Fortifications
  • Foreign fighters
  • Information war
  • Naval warfare
  • Legality
  • Map
  • Order of battle
  • Peace negotiations
  • Proposed no-fly zone
  • Red lines
  • Reparations
  • Territorial control
  • Women
  • Prelude

  • Disinformation
  • 2021 Russia–United States summit
  • 2021 Black Sea incident
  • Belarus–European Union border crisis
  • "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians"
  • Crimea Platform
  • Zapad 2021
  • December 2021 ultimatum
  • 2022 Ukraine cyberattacks
  • Zametil 2022
  • Union Resolve 2022
  • Stanytsia Luhanska kindergarten bombing
  • British–Polish–Ukrainian trilateral pact
  • Evacuation of the Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR
  • Mobilization in Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR
  • "Address concerning the events in Ukraine"
  • "On conducting a special military operation"
  • Background

  • 2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
  • Annexation of Crimea
  • War in Donbas
  • Putinism
  • Foreign
    relations

  • Belarus–Ukraine
  • Belarus–Russia
  • Russia–United States
  • Ukraine–United States
  • Russia–NATO
  • Ukraine–NATO
  • Siege of Mariupol
  • Battle of Kherson
  • Capture of Melitopol
  • Battle of Mykolaiv
  • Battle of Enerhodar
  • Battle of Voznesensk
  • Battle of Huliaipole
  • Battle of Davydiv Brid
  • Kherson counteroffensive
  • Dnieper campaign
  • Eastern
    Ukraine

  • Battle of Kharkiv
  • Battle of Izium
  • Battle of Rubizhne
  • Battle of Popasna
  • Battle of Marinka
  • Battle of Donbas
  • Battle of Vuhledar
  • Kharkiv counteroffensive
  • Luhansk Oblast campaign
  • Battle of Avdiivka
  • Northern
    Ukraine

  • Capture of Chernobyl
  • Battle of Kyiv
  • Battle of Hostomel
  • Battle of Bucha
  • Battle of Irpin
  • Battle of Makariv
  • Russian Kyiv convoy
  • Battle of Moshchun
  • Battle of Brovary
  • Battle of Slavutych
  • Battle of Sumy
  • Siege of Chernihiv
  • Battle of Okhtyrka
  • Battle of Lebedyn
  • Northern Ukraine skirmishes
  • Airstrikes
    by city

  • Dnipro strikes
  • Ivano-Frankivsk strikes
  • Kharkiv strikes
  • Kherson strikes
  • Khmelnytskyi strikes
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  • Odesa strikes
  • Rivne strikes
  • Vinnytsia strikes
  • Zaporizhzhia strikes
  • Zhytomyr strikes
  • Airstrikes on
    military targets

  • Millerovo air base attack
  • Chornobaivka attacks
  • 7 March 2022 Mykolaiv military barracks attack
  • Yavoriv military base attack
  • 18 March 2022 Mykolaiv military quarters attack
  • Berdiansk port attack
  • Sinking of the Moskva
  • Desna barracks airstrike
  • Attack on Nova Kakhovka
  • Crimea attacks
  • Dyagilevo and Engels air bases attacks
  • Makiivka military quarters shelling
  • Machulishchy air base attack
  • Zarichne barracks airstrike
  • Resistance

    Russian-occupied Ukraine

  • Berdiansk Partisan Army
  • Yellow Ribbon
  • Atesh
  • Belarus and Russia

  • Civic Council
  • Irpin Declaration
  • Killing of Darya Dugina
  • Military commissariats arsons
  • Rail war in Russia
  • Rail war in Belarus
  • Russian
    occupations

    Ongoing

  • Annexation of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia oblasts
  • Elections in Russian-occupied Ukraine
  • Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine
  • Donetsk Oblast
  • Kharkiv Oblast
  • Kherson Oblast
  • Luhansk Oblast
  • Mykolaiv Oblast
  • Zaporizhzhia Oblast
  • Previous

  • Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava oblasts
  • Kyiv Oblast
  • Odesa Oblast
  • Sumy Oblast
  • Zhytomyr Oblast
  • Potentially
    related

  • Mystery fires in Russia
  • Nord Stream pipeline sabotage
  • Transnistria attacks
  • Zagreb Tu-141 crash
  • Other

  • 2023 Crimean Bridge explosion
  • Assassination attempts on Volodymyr Zelenskyy
  • Coup d'état attempt in Ukraine
  • Bridges in the Russo-Ukrainian War
  • Violations of non-combatant airspaces
  • Operation Synytsia
  • Attacks in Russia
  • 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
  • Wagner Group rebellion
  • General

  • Allegations of genocide of Ukrainians
  • Attacks on hospitals
  • Cluster munitions
  • Incendiary weapons
  • Landmines
  • Russian filtration camps
  • Russian mobile crematoriums
  • Russian theft of Ukrainian grain
  • Russian torture chambers
  • Looting
  • Sexual violence
  • Mistreatment of prisoners of war
  • Attacks on
    civilians

  • Kharkiv government building airstrike
  • 3 March Chernihiv bombing
  • Irpin refugee column shelling
  • Mariupol hospital airstrike
  • Stara Krasnianka care house attack
  • Mykolaiv cluster bombing
  • March 2022 Donetsk attack
  • 2022 Borodianka airstrikes
  • Chernihiv breadline attack
  • Mariupol theatre airstrike
  • Kyiv shopping centre bombing
  • Sumykhimprom ammonia leak
  • March 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing
  • Mykolaiv government building missile strike
  • Bucha massacre
  • Kramatorsk railway station attack
  • April 2022 Kharkiv cluster bombing
  • Bilohorivka school bombing
  • Shooting of Andrii Bohomaz
  • Maisky Market attack
  • Kremenchuk shopping mall attack
  • Serhiivka missile strike
  • July 2022 Chasiv Yar missile strike
  • Olenivka prison massacre
  • Kharkiv dormitories missile strike
  • Chaplyne railway station attack
  • Izium mass graves
  • September 2022 Donetsk attack
  • Zaporizhzhia civilian convoy attack
  • Kupiansk civilian convoy shelling
  • Zaporizhzhia residential building airstrike
  • Russian strikes against Ukrainian infrastructure
  • 2023 Dnipro residential building airstrike
  • Sloviansk airstrike
  • Uman missile strike
  • Kramatorsk restaurant missile strike
  • Lyman cluster bombing
  • 2023 Pokrovsk missile strike
  • Chernihiv missile strike
  • Kostiantynivka missile strike
  • Hroza missile attack
  • Volnovakha massacre
  • December 2023 strikes
  • 2024 Pokrovsk missile strike
  • 2024 Donetsk attack
  • Lysychansk missile strike
  • 6 March 2024 Odesa strike
  • March 2024 strikes
  • April 2024 Chernihiv missile strike
  • 25 May 2024 Kharkiv missile strikes
  • 8 July 2024 Ukraine missile strikes
  • Crimes against
    soldiers

  • Torture and castration of a Ukrainian POW in Pryvillia
  • Murder of Yevgeny Nuzhin
  • Makiivka surrender incident
  • Execution of Oleksandr Matsievskyi
  • 2022 Ukrainian prisoner of war beheading
  • Legal cases

  • ICJ court case
  • Task Force on Accountability
  • Universal jurisdiction
  • Crime of aggression
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  • Military aid
  • People's Bayraktar
  • Signmyrocket.com
  • Humanitarian aid
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  • Relations with Russia
  • Ukraine

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  • Brave1
  • Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War
  • Decolonization and derussification law
  • Delta
  • Destroyed Russian military equipment exhibition
  • For Courage and Bravery (Ukraine)
  • Grain From Ukraine
  • Headquarters of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief
  • Hero City
  • I Want to Live
  • International Defence Industries Forum
  • International Legion and other foreign units
  • International Sponsors of War
  • Look for Your Own
  • Martial law
  • Mobilization
  • Media Center Ukraine
  • North Korea–Ukraine relations
  • Points of Invincibility
  • Recognition of Ichkeria
  • Syria–Ukraine relations
  • Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra
  • United24
  • United News
  • Russia

    • highways in the annexed territories
  • A291 "Tavrida"
  • R260
  • 2022 Moscow rally
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  • 2023 Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly
  • Bogdan Khmelnitsky Battalion
  • Chechnya
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  • Mobilization
  • Operation Doppelgänger
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  • Unfriendly countries list
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  • We Are Together. Sports
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  • United States

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  • Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
  • Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023
  • Disinformation Governance Board
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  • Resolution ES-11/5
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  • Security Council Resolution 2623
  • Resolution 77/229
  • Easter truce
  • International
    organizations

  • Accession of Ukraine to the EU
  • Brussels summit
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  • NATO virtual summit
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  • Versailles declaration
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  • Other

  • F-16 training coalition
  • Finland–NATO relations
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  • Iron diplomacy
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  • Sweden–NATO relations
  • Public

    Protests

  • demolition of monuments to Alexander Pushkin
  • ArmWomenNow
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  • In Belarus
  • In China
  • In Czech Republic
  • Companies

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  • McDonald's in Russia
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  • Wagner Group
  • Yale CELI List of Companies
  • Technology

  • alerts.in.ua
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  • peacenotwar
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  • Wikipedia
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  • Other

  • Black Sea Grain Initiative
  • Collaboration with Russia
  • Concert for Ukraine
  • Free Buryatia Foundation
  • Free Nations of Post-Russia Forum
  • Game4Ukraine
  • Get Lost
  • Global Tour for Peace
  • Guide to the Free World
  • Mozart Group
  • Olena Zelenska Foundation
  • Open letter from Nobel laureates
  • Pavel Sudoplatov Battalion
  • Rubikus.HelpUA
  • Ruslan Shostak Charitable Foundation
  • Russia's War Crimes House
  • Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online
  • Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation
  • Spain letter bomb attacks
  • Yermak-McFaul Expert Group on Russian Sanctions
  • Pavel Filatyev
  • True Russia
  • Volos Declaration
  • Wimbledon ban
  • Impact

    Effects

  • Casualties
  • Canadians killed
  • Colombians killed
  • Israelis killed
  • journalists killed
  • Russian generals killed
  • Economic impact
  • Education
  • End of the Whisky War
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  • Eurovision Song Contest 2022
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  • List of notable deaths
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  • Religion
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  • Ukrainian culture
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  • Violations of non-combatant airspaces
  • Women
  • Human rights

  • Ukrainian refugee crisis
  • UN Commission of Inquiry
  • UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission
  • Terms and phrases

  • "Anglo-Saxons"
  • "Bavovna"
  • "Grandpa in his bunker"
  • "Good evening, we are from Ukraine"
  • "Orc"
  • "Putin khuylo!"
  • "Khuy Voyne!"
  • "Russian warship, go fuck yourself"
  • "Slava Ukraini!"
  • "Special military operation"
  • "To bomb Voronezh"
  • "Strength is in truth"
  • "Westsplaining"
  • "Where have you been for eight years?"
  • "Without you"
  • Popular culture

    Songs

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  • Bayraktar
  • Bilia topoli
  • City of Mary
  • Flowers of Minefields
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  • Generation Z
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  • Hey, Hey, Rise Up!
  • Mama ŠČ!
  • Oi u luzi chervona kalyna
  • Slava Ukraini!
  • Stefania
  • Ukraine
  • Crushed
  • Films

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  • Other

  • Back to the Cold War
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  • Madonna of Kyiv
  • North Atlantic Fella Organization
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  • "Putler"
  • "Putinversteher"
  • Raccoon of Kherson
  • Saint Javelin
  • Vasylkiv maiolica rooster
  • Vladimir Putin's meeting table
  • Walk of the Brave
  • "Z" military symbol
  • Key people

    Ukrainians

  • visit to the United States
  • visit to the United Kingdom
  • visits to Europe
  • Andriy Biletsky
  • Denys Shmyhal
  • Denys Kireyev
  • Denys Monastyrsky
  • Denys Prokopenko
  • Iryna Venediktova
  • Kyrylo Budanov
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  • Oleksii Reznikov
  • Oleksiy Danilov
  • Oleksiy Neizhpapa
  • Ruslan Khomchak
  • Rustem Umerov
  • Sergiy Kyslytsya
  • Serhiy Shaptala
  • Serhii Sternenko
  • Valerii Zaluzhnyi
  • Vitali Klitschko
  • Yevhen Moisiuk
  • Russians

  • Aleksandr Dvornikov
  • Aleksandr Lapin
  • Aleksey Nagin
  • Alexander Bortnikov
  • Andrei Kolesnikov
  • Andrei Sychevoi
  • Andrey Belousov
  • Andrey Vorobyov
  • Dmitry Medvedev
  • Gennady Zhidko
  • Igor Kastyukevich
  • Ivan Ivanovich Popov
  • Mikhail Mishustin
  • Maria Lvova-Belova
  • Nikolai Patrushev
  • Oleg Salyukov
  • Oleg Tsokov
  • Ramzan Kadyrov
  • Roman Berdnikov
  • Rustam Muradov
  • Sergey Kobylash
  • Sergey Lavrov
  • Sergey Naryshkin
  • Sergei Shoigu
  • Sergey Surovikin
  • Timur Ivanov
  • Valery Gerasimov
  • Viktor Sokolov
  • Viktor Zolotov
  • Vitaly Gerasimov
  • Vyacheslav Gladkov
  • Vyacheslav Volodin
  • Yevgeny Prigozhin
  • Other

  • Donetsk People's Republic Denis Pushilin
  • Luhansk People's Republic Leonid Pasechnik
  • 2024 Korochansky Ilyushin Il-76 crash
  • Anti-Russian sentiment
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  • Antonov An-225 Mriya
  • Azovstal Iron and Steel Works
  • Belgorod accidental bombing
  • Brovary helicopter crash
  • Bryansk Oblast military aircraft crashes
  • Claims of Vladimir Putin's incapacity and death
  • Decolonization in Ukraine
  • Decommunization in Ukraine
  • Derussification in Ukraine
  • Foreign leaders that have visited during the invasion
  • Institute for the Study of War
  • Irkutsk military aircraft crash
  • Ivanovo Ilyushin Il-76 crash
  • Lady R incident
  • Nord Stream 2
  • Proposed Russian annexation of Transnistria
  • Punisher
  • Russian nuclear weapons
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  • Ryazan military aircraft crash
  • Siberian wildfires
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  • Soviet imagery
  • U-24 association
  • Ukrainian conscription crisis
  • Ural Airlines Flight 1383
  • Tucker Carlson's interview with Vladimir Putin
  • Yeysk Su-34 crash
  • Moldovan coup attempt allegations
  • 2023 visit by Joe Biden to Ukraine
  • 2023 visit by Fumio Kishida to Ukraine
  • 2023 visit by Xi Jinping to Russia
  • 2023 visit by Yoon Suk Yeol to Ukraine
  • Wagner Group plane crash
  • Yaroslav Hunka scandal
  • International

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