VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE

Following a historic election win, President Volodymyr Zelensky now has the parliamentary majority needed to enact transformative judicial and land market reforms. Here, President Zelensky, a political outsider, explains his new vision for Ukraine.

What achievement does your election win represent for Ukraine?

The main achievement is that the people of Ukraine have chosen a new order, with a young and energetic team who don’t only want to change Ukraine, but to make it a country that no one wants to leave.

How do you plan to tackle corruption?

We are making changes with the judiciary so that investors can see that their investments will be defended. I can promise that we will never again have such levels of corruption, and we will make great strides toward transparency.

What defines the Us-ukraine relationship?

The US is our strategic partner, and we are very grateful for the support we get. We know that to win the battle against corruption we have to embrace digitalization. In this, we have a connection because Ukraine has many brilliant IT people, and the US is the world’s IT hub.

What is the goal of the land reform?

Nowhere is there as much fertile land as in Ukraine. Opening the land market will help our Ukrainian farmers. Right now, the land they farm doesn’t belong to them, in a similar way that apartments in the Soviet era didn’t belong to the people. We want Ukrainians to have the possibility of buying land so they can launch enterprises.