“The Kremlin wants to turn the winter cold into a weapon of mass destruction,” the Ukrainian president said in a subtitled video released during a tribute to Ukraine organized by the Association of French Mayors (AMF) on the occasion of their congress. which was attended by a delegation of elected representatives of Ukraine.
“To survive this winter and not allow Russia to turn the cold into a tool of terror and submission, we need a lot of things,” explained Volodymyr Zelensky, mentioning in particular “generators of different capacities”, “help (and) demining equipment for firefighters , first responders and doctors.
“I call on you to be very concrete in helping and supporting our cities and communities against terrorism,” he added.
Franco-Ukrainian ties in the spotlight
AMF President David Lisnard, who visited Ukraine in the weeks after the Russian attack began, invited several Ukrainian elected officials to his association’s congress to express “our admiration, our solidarity and our support.”
“The mayors of France were there in the first kilometer of humanitarian aid to Ukraine and in the last kilometer, that of the human reception” of the refugees, he underlined visibly moved.
The mayor of Lviv, Andrei Sadovy, who is part of the Ukrainian delegation present at the congress, had paid tribute to David Lisnard for “being one of the first foreign politicians to have physically visited Ukraine” and having “thus sealed an immortal friendship between French and Ukrainian citizens”.
Source: BFM TV
