The Trump administration has given Ukraine until Thursday to approve its proposal to end the conflict with Russia or lose U.S. military support, with Trump claiming on social media that “UKRAINE ‘LEADERSHIP’ HAS EXPRESSED ZERO GRATITUDE FOR OUR EFFORTS.”

Dale noted in his extensive column Monday that Zelenskyy has done so numerous times since Russia launched its invasion in 2022, citing a whopping 78 examples spanning from January of that year to this past Sunday — after Trump criticized Zelenskyy as ungrateful.

“Zelensky has said it on social media, sometimes tagging Trump’s account,” wrote Dale. “He has said it to Trump face-to-face. He has said it to Trump appointees and members of Congress. He has said it in Ukraine, in the US, and in other countries.”

He continued, “In fact, Zelensky said it last week.”

Trump on Sunday called the invasion “The War between Russia and Ukraine,” arguing it “would have NEVER HAPPENED” if the 2020 election wasn’t “RIGGED & STOLEN” by former President Joe Biden or, as he called it, “the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration.”

Zelenskyy appeared to be responding to that Truth Social post when he published a video thanking “each and every person” who is helping Ukraine, including “the president of the United States,” and “personally” thanked Trump for “saving Ukrainian lives” in another post.

Zelenskyy has done so repeatedly over the years, as Dale enumerated Monday.

“I also extend my deep gratitude to the American companies, the Department of Energy, and president of the United States Donald Trump,” he said Nov. 16 in Greece, adding: “We are grateful to the people of the United States and to the president once again.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in August in the Oval Office.

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The fact-checker noted Monday in his column that Trump only criticized the Ukrainian leader Sunday after he “pushed back” against the administration’s proposal to end the war, which comes with “many proposed concessions to Russia” — including swaths of land.

“And it echoed the contentious February meeting with Zelensky in which Trump told the Ukrainian president, ‘You gotta be more thankful,’” wrote Dale. “The day of that meeting, CNN published a list of examples of Zelensky thanking … the United States.”

He then noted that this list, published in full Monday at the end of the column, has been updated with 44 additional examples since February — when Trump and Vice President JD Vance berated Zelenskyy during a hostile White House meeting televised for the world.

“This list is not intended to be comprehensive,” wrote Dale. “Notably, we did not review most of the remarks Zelensky has made in Ukrainian during the war, and we, of course, do not know what he said in most of his closed-door conversations.”