Ukraine's Zelenskiy: world must help Iran engineer change


Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy speaks during the official opening of Cyprus taking over the EU presidency at the THOC theatre in Nicosia, Cyprus January 7, 2026. HADJIELIA KYRIAKOS /PIO/Handout via REUTERS

Jan 12 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that the world had to ‌help Iranians build on protests to engineer change to free ‌them from rule that brought evil to their own and other countries, including Ukraine.

Zelenskiy, speaking in his nightly video address, described the nationwide protests gripping Iran as ‍an "uprising".

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