Sources
Where everything on this site comes from — and the provenance of every photograph.
Primary sources
- The Office of the President of Ukraine (president.gov.ua) — addresses, transcripts, decrees, visit records. The backbone of the wartime pages.
- Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine — laws, martial-law extensions, cabinet votes, the Victory Plan presentation.
- Central Election Commission of Ukraine — 2019 presidential and parliamentary results.
- White House — the 25 July 2019 call memorandum; Biden-administration Ukraine statements.
- U.S. Congress — Congressional Record (addresses of 16 March and 21 December 2022; Olena Zelenska’s July 2022 address).
- UK Parliament — Hansard (8 March 2022 address).
- Élysée / Munich Security Conference — Normandy summit readouts; MSC transcripts.
- European Council — EU candidacy decision, 23 June 2022.
- United Nations — Black Sea Grain Initiative records; General Assembly records.
- Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs — Bürgenstock Summit communiqué, 16 June 2024.
Reporting
Reuters, the Associated Press, and the BBC are the principal secondary sources for dated events; TIME for the 2023 interview; the OSCE/ODIHR for 2019 election observation. Quotations are cited to their venue in every case.
Image provenance
See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.
- Ukrainian presidency photographs (14 images): released under CC BY 4.0 on Wikimedia Commons — official portraits, wartime Kyiv photographs, summit and visit photographs, and addresses. Attribution: Office of the President of Ukraine.
- U.S. government photographs (3 images): public domain — Biden’s Kyiv visit (White House), the two December 2022 Congress photographs.
- Munich Security Conference (1 image): CC BY-SA 4.0 — the 19 February 2022 main-stage photograph.
- Bucha visit photograph (1 image): CC BY-SA 4.0 (contributor upload).
- Europe visits map (1 image): CC0 (contributor map).
- AI-generated dramatization art: every generated image is recorded in
the image credits on this pageas AI-generated 2026-09 dramatization art in a stylized 3D animated-movie caricature style — captioned on-page as “AI-generated dramatization art — not a historical depiction.” No AI-generated image depicts the real person photorealistically.
No image on this site is used without a verifiable license. If a license changes upstream, the provenance file is updated.
What is not a source here
Social-media posts, unsourced viral claims, and state-media assertions without corroboration are not cited as evidence anywhere on this site. Where such claims are addressed — see Public Record — they are addressed in order to check them, not to repeat them.
Source notes
- This page is itself a source note for the whole site.
- See the image captions for credits and context. Illustrated character art is a dramatization.
- License verification: Wikimedia Commons file pages, checked September 2026.