On the 31st anniversary of Ukraine's Independence Day, President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated the Ukrainian people and said that we will raise our hands only once - when we celebrate the victory over the Russian invaders. ZN. UA publishes in the original language the full text of Zelensky's speech, published on the website of the President's Office.
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I cim everything is said. All the words, but how rich it is to stand behind them today. On the 182nd day of a full-scale war. Skіlki in these words of symbols and sensations, deeds and expenses, joy and pain. And the smut - skilki truth in them. Our truth. Tell the truth about our current day, with which it is impossible to cross, for it is impossible not to bachiti and not to recognize. My free people of independent Ukraine. After six months, if we are scammed by the poor, the peaceful people of independent Ukraine. І tse truth about our future. Great people of independent Ukraine.
To that fate, Russia voiced the war to us. 24 fierce all Ukraine smelled vibuhi and shot. І 24th sickle is not a little bit like a slew of “Happy Independence Day”. 24 We were told fiercely: you have no chance. 24 sickles mi say: Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
For six months we have changed history, changed light and changed ourselves. Now we know for sure who is true brother and friend to us, and who is not a vipadkovy know. Who did not waste their reputation, and who survived, so that the terrorists saved their guise. To whom we really don’t need, but where are the doors of true judgment for us. We figured out who is who. And the whole world knows who the Ukrainians are. What is Ukraine. Nothing else can be said about her: here is there, the bіla of Russia.
We began to respect ourselves. They realized that if I could help and support someone, we were crimson, we wouldn’t defy our independence. I have united.
Mine were not yet small " We were not ready to close the sky, but we were few people, as if they were ready to close the native land with themselves.
Ukrainian people and yogo masculinity inhaled the whole world. They gave the people a new hope, that justice did not leave our cynical world for the rest. And in the new, it’s not strength that still wins, but the truth. Not pennies, but values. Not naphtha, but people.
Yet yesterday the world is not bov zgurtovanim. COVID-19 Brilliantly Showing: Skin for Itself. For six months Ukraine changed the price. In our light handbooks from history, I will share “Hours, if Ukraine has united the world”. If in democracy the teeth have grown again. If tyranny takes away my mind, how wise.
Htos kaz: Europe is no longer grave. Weak, broken, passive, sleepy. Ukraine conquered the whole continent. Europe to enter the square. Europe imposes severe sanctions. Europe unanimously recognizes: Ukraine is a possible member of the European Union.
Great business understands that pennies still smell. Blood, garom, death. Corporations and brandy go from the Russian market, and people have become important, lower potency.
There is no other time in the world that the thought of supremacy is not small enough for such a splash on politicians. Today people dictate the rules of behavior to the rulers. Buti baiduzhim, inactive, povіlny sormno. Be insatiable and overprotective - soromno. Speak shitty, rozmit and too diplomatically - shamefully. Do not support Ukraine - shamefully. I say that in Ukraine it’s the same, soromno. This is a more secure position: then - tse cover, to flatten your eyes. And today we feel like the leaders of the world and the great bulkers: we will be with you until the end, until you win.
shanovny people!
We have always given shana to all fighters for independence, called this day the head saint, and the blue-yellow ensign - a shrine. They put their hands to their hearts, singing the national anthem, proudly proclaimed \! » and «Glory to the heroes!
24 of the fierce, it was necessary for us to confirm the words on the right. On what day did another all-Ukrainian referendum actually take place. Znovu - smut food. Znovu - the initial choice. Ale that once to say “so” to the independence was not in the bulletin, but in the soul of the conscience. Go not on a dilnitsa, but at a viyskkomati, a terodefense, a volunteer movement, an information war, or just work steadily and summarily in your field, for full strength, for a sleeping meta.
Everything has changed. Who was suddenly born. Like a person, special person, hulk, patriot, just like a Ukrainian. І tse, obviously, good news. Who knows. Not perishing, not dying, but robbing. Like a person, special person, hulk, like a Ukrainian. І tse really tezh bad news. We are no longer respected by one alone. We zrobili vibir. For whom - tse Mariupol. For someone – Monaco.
Ale mi know who is more. And we were truly united. New nation, yak appeared in the world on the 24th fierce, about the 4th wound. Not born, but born. Nation, yak did not cry, did not shout, did not sneer. Didn't leak. I didn't give up. I didn't forget.
Tsey ensign will be everywhere, de maє buti by right. I in Donbas. I in Krimu. Enemy thinking, we’ll sip with citrus and champagne. Natomist otrimav wines and Molotov cocktails. Chekav on ovation, but chuє "
Occupant vіriv, scho for a few days parade near the center of our capital. Today you can watch the “parade” on Khreshchatyk. Proof that fortune-telling technology can appear in the center of Kiev only in such a way. Burnt, zruynovana that slumped.
It doesn't matter to us what kind of army you have, it's important to us that the land is in us. We will fight for her until the end.
We've been three months. It’s important to us, but we clenched our fists and win our share. Skin is a new day - the price is a new reason not to meet. Bo, passed everything, we don’t have the right not to go to the end.
What is the end of war for us? We used to say: peace. At once, apparently: victory.
We do not fool around with the terrorists. If you want to understand Russian language, you have come to protect. I drove thousands of people who came to deign.
And Johnson, who speaks English, is much more understandable and close to us than the murderers, rapists and marauders who did all this in Russian..
I do not sit down for the style of negotiations through fear. For us, the most terrible thing is not rockets, planes, tanks, but kaidans. Don't dig, but shackle.
And we raise our hands uphill only once - if the holy time we win. All Ukraine. For we do not trade our lands and our people. For us, Ukraine is the whole of Ukraine. Usі 25 regions, without any act of chi compromises. We don't know these words, the stench was blasted with rockets 24 fierce.
Donbass - tse Ukraine. I mi turnatimemo yogo. Krim-tse Ukraine. I mi yogo rotatetimemo. Hi yakim bude tsey way.
You don't want your soldiers to die? Strengthen our lands. Don't want your mothers to cry? Strengthen our lands. The axis is so simple and understand our minds.
Great people of independent Ukraine!
Mi zustrіchaєmo all day at different places. Khtos - in trenches and dugouts, near tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, on the sea near the front. Fight for independence on the front line. Htos - at the door, in the car, vantage and pulls. Fight for independence, correcting the need for those who are at the forefront. And htos - at the smartphone chi at the computer. І tezh fight for independence - picking up money, schob tim, who is expensive, it was good to carry tim, who is on the front line.
Mi zustrіchaєmo all day long in different environments, minds and minds in different time zones, but with a single method - saving the independence and victory of Ukraine!
We united.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine!
Glory to Ukraine!
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