Zelenskyy decommissioned General Valery Zaluzhny as Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and promoted General Oleksandr Syrskyi in his stead.

Zelenskyy called on neutral countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia to abandon their neutrality and support Ukraine in a speech to the UN General Assembly.

Zelenskyy visited the United States on his first foreign trip since the war began and addressed Congress.

Zelenskyy announced that his administration would enter a bill to ban 'religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation' from operating in Ukraine.

Zelenskyy stated that despite Russia's claim of targeting only military sites, civilian sites were also being hit. He remained in Kyiv with his family.

Russia initiated a 'special military operation' in the Donbas region. Zelenskyy declared martial law and general mobilization across Ukraine.

Zelenskyy warned the Munich Security Conference that Western nations should abandon their 'appeasement' attitude toward Moscow.

Zelenskyy signed Decree 117/2021 approving the strategy for de-occupation and reintegration of the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol.

Zelenskyy dismissed Andriy Bohdan as head of his presidential administration and appointed Andriy Yermak as his successor.

Zelenskyy cut short his trip to Oman due to the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 plane crash in Iran.

The new parliament passed a bill stripping lawmakers of legal immunity, fulfilling one of Zelenskyy's key campaign promises.

Zelenskyy's political party, Servant of the People, won the first single-party majority in modern Ukrainian history in the parliamentary election.

Zelenskyy held his first telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, discussing the exchange of prisoners and urging Putin to enter into talks mediated by the EU.

Zelenskyy was inaugurated as the President of Ukraine. Various foreign officials attended the ceremony in Ukraine's parliament (Verkhovna Rada).

U.S. President Donald Trump congratulated Zelenskyy on his victory over the telephone.

Zelenskyy won the second round of the Ukrainian presidential elections with 73% of the vote, defeating incumbent President Petro Poroshenko.

French President Emmanuel Macron received Zelenskyy at the Élysée Palace in Paris.

Zelenskyy achieved a plurality of the electorate (30%) in the first round of the Ukrainian presidential elections.

Zelenskyy announced his candidacy for the 2019 presidential election of Ukraine during the New Year's Eve address on the TV channel 1+1.

Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was born in Kryvyi Rih, then in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, to a Ukrainian Jewish family.