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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Oleksandrovych and the family name is Zelenskyy.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Володимир Зеленський
Zelenskyy in 2022
6th President of Ukraine
Incumbent
Assumed office
20 May 2019
Prime Minister
Volodymyr Groysman
Oleksiy Honcharuk
Denys Shmyhal
Preceded by Petro Poroshenko
Personal details
Born 25 January 1978 (age 45)
Kryvyi Rih, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Political party Independent[1]
Other political
affiliations Servant of the People (2018–present)
Spouse Olena Kiyashko
(m. 2003)
Children 2
Parent
Oleksandr Zelenskyy (father)
Residence Mariinskyi Palace
Alma mater Kyiv National Economic University (LLB)
Occupation
Politicianactorcomedian
Signature Volodymyr Zelenskyy's signature
Website president.gov.ua/en
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Early life Personal life
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Servant of the People
President of Ukraine
Presidency
Assassination attempts Presidential trips
2022 US visit 2023 UK visit 2023 European visit Trump–Ukraine scandal Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 COVID-19 pandemic Constitutional crisis European Union membership bid NATO membership bid
Russo-Ukrainian War War in Donbas (2014–2022) Prelude to the Russian invasion of Ukraine Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022 annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts
Governments
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Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy[a] (also romanized as Zelensky or Zelenskiy;[b] born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician who has been serving as the sixth president of Ukraine since 2019. He was formerly a comedian and actor.
Born to a Ukrainian Jewish family, Zelenskyy grew up as a native Russian speaker in Kryvyi Rih, a major city of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast in central Ukraine. Prior to his acting career, he obtained a degree in law from the Kyiv National Economic University. He then pursued a career in comedy and created the production company Kvartal 95, which produced films, cartoons, and TV shows including the TV series Servant of the People, in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president. The series aired from 2015 to 2019 and was immensely popular. A political party with the same name as the TV show was created in March 2018 by employees of Kvartal 95.
