• Zelenskyy said he does not "believe" Biden is in fear of Putin.
  • The Ukrainian leader made the comments during an interview on Fox News on Friday. 
  • "I want to believe that he doesn't because he is the leader of a big nation,"  he said.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Fox News that he doesn't "believe" that President Joe Biden is in fear of Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

"I don't know if President Biden is fearing President Putin. I believe that he doesn't. I want to believe that he doesn't because he is the leader of a big nation, a great nation," Zelenskyy said on "Special Report" on Friday. 

"I'm holding my fist. That's our tradition. I don't know if you understand this standard. I hold my fist or cross my fingers so that this will never happen, that any president of the United States would fear Russia because America, for us, was always a symbol of democracy, and I have faith that Ukraine is also now — for Ukraine, you are also a symbol of freedom," he continued.

Putin's attack on Ukraine was met with international condemnation, as countries including the UK, Canada, and the US have issued sanctions that have impacted Russia's economy and its oligarchs. 

Biden has publicly opposed Russia's actions since the war began. Last month, Biden labeled Putin a"war criminal" and recently during a visit to Poland he said that the Russian leader was a "butcher."

In one of his harshest criticisms of Putin, Biden said that he "cannot remain in power," a comment that the White House and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken walked back.

"We do not have a strategy of regime change in Russia, or anywhere else, for that matter," Blinken said last weekend. 

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