After the victory of Ukraine is approved, Russia will not be able to dictate anything to the peoples of Europe, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said in the Seimas of Lithuania on Friday, January 13, in his speech at the ceremony of awarding him the Freedom Prize for 2022.

The award, presented to the head of Ukraine through the Ambassador of Ukraine to Lithuania Petr Best, is dedicated to Zelensky's merits as the President of Ukraine and the people of Ukraine in the struggle for independence, freedom and democracy in the face of Russian aggression.

Zelensky noted that Lithuania is one of the most sincere defenders of freedom, and this is the best respect for the Latvians who died in January 1991 while protecting the television center building and the parliament from blocking by Soviet troops.

“Now we are together with you on the path to victory, to the final victory over this empire. Russia will not be able to dictate anything to the peoples of Europe when we end this war with a confident victory over the aggressor,” the President of Ukraine said..

Zelensky expressed confidence that Russia is suffering a clear defeat and will no longer be able to encroach on someone's freedom.

“This is what we are fighting for, and therefore we have such a victory that we will never confuse with anything. So that the Russians never forget about it, so that it can never be manipulated, it is necessary to defeat the aggressor precisely on the land of Ukraine, where he came, so that we do not have to fight on the lands of other European nations,” the President said..

He added that this year will be decisive for the fight, so Ukraine needs to " Zelensky also thanked the people of Lithuania for supporting Ukraine in the difficult time of the struggle for freedom..

“Let free people always make history. Thank you, friends, thank you for this honorary award, which is also received by all Ukrainians who fight for freedom,” he said..

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The Freedom Prize, founded by the Seimas of Lithuania, is awarded for the contribution of individuals and organizations to the struggle for free self-determination and sovereignty of the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe. It is awarded in the Lithuanian Parliament annually on January 13 in memory of the events on this day in 1991, when the Soviet regime tried to suppress the aspirations of Lithuania for independence, which had previously announced its secession from the USSR. Then the Soviet troops used force against the Lithuanians. The clashes killed 14 people and injured 702 others..