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title: Address 'Drive the occupiers out, drive these slaves out' to the residents of Ukrainian cities
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zelenskyy-drive-out-slaves-address-2022/
description: President Zelenskyy in an olive shirt, seated at a desk with papers, desk phones and a green leather chair behind him, in the photograph the President's…
section: Collection
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# Address 'Drive the occupiers out, drive these slaves out' to the residents of Ukrainian cities

President Zelenskyy in an olive shirt, seated at a desk with papers, desk phones and a green leather chair behind him, in the photograph the President's Office published with the video address of 21 March 2022. The photograph carries no text; the marker is the address itself, whose official title and text call Russian troops 'occupiers' and repeatedly 'slaves' (of propaganda, 'slaves with weapons in their hands') in place of describing what happened.

- **Date:** March 21, 2022
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Office of the President of Ukraine (President Volodymyr Zelenskyy)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=ukraine)
- **Medium:** [Photograph](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=photograph)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Zelenskyy Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=zelenskyy-government)
- **Leader:** [Volodymyr Zelenskyy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=volodymyr-zelenskyy)
- **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public)
- **Purpose:** [Mobilize or secure compliance](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=mobilize-comply)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [Russian Invasion of Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=russian-invasion-of-ukraine)
- **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Flickr (Office of the President of Ukraine); mirrored on Wikimedia Commons](https://www.flickr.com/photos/president_of_ukraine/51952063807/), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC0 1.0 (Office of the President of Ukraine, Flickr; Commons file page also tags CC0) Office of the President of Ukraine (president.gov.ua), CC0 1.0.

## Text on the object

Checked for printed text

No printed or legible text on this object.

The photograph shows Zelenskyy at a desk with two sheets of paper in front of him, a desk telephone, a pen holder and a laptop edge. The papers are out of focus and cannot be read; there is no caption, watermark or on-screen text. The wording relied on in the caption and notes is the English text the Office published with the photograph on Flickr, not text on the image.

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