The President of Ukraine defended this Thursday that “there will be no more pauses in the history of Ukraine” and that the idea of a common European home without the country is an “unfinished project”.
“There will be no more pauses in the history of Ukraine,” said Volodymyr Zelensky, at the start of an award ceremony marking Ukraine’s Independence Day.
Zelensky added that there were times in the past when there was a lack of unity among the Ukrainians and that the consequence was the occupation.
“We will never leave her again [a independência] It’s getting out of hand!”
“Ukraine has achieved permanent and uninterrupted independence,” said the Ukrainian head of state.
In front of hundreds of soldiers and citizens who attended the ceremony in Kiev, the Ukrainian president affirmed that today “the majority of the world is with Ukraine” and that the country cannot waste this opportunity and let it divide again.
And he left a warning to the heads of state present at the ceremony, including the Portuguese president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa: “Our common European home without Ukraine is an unfinished project.”
Ukraine celebrates Independence Day this Thursday, the same date that marks 18 months of Russia’s military offensive against the country, which began on February 24, 2022.
The date, which this year commemorates the 32nd anniversary of the independence of Ukraine -declared on August 24, 1991, shortly before the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which it was a part-, is marked by restrictions and security measures further a little further. the country, fearing more Russian attacks, which have intensified in recent weeks.
Source: TSF
