Volodymyr Zelensky recorded a 15-minute address to the people, recalling February 24, 2022 and the events that took place afterwards.
In the same room, only 365 days later. President turned to to Ukrainians a year after the beginning of the large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation.
Then his address lasted 67 seconds. Ukrainians learned that a full-scale war had begun and, as a strong nation, we would fight.
“We are strong. We are ready for anything. We will defeat everyone. Because we are Ukraine!” – said the President, addressing everyone a year ago.
“We did not raise the white flag, but began to defend the blue and yellow,” he said today.
The presidential address today, February 24, 2023, talks about what everyone felt these days.
“We didn’t know what would happen tomorrow. But they definitely understood: you have to fight for every tomorrow!
We have been standing for exactly one year. And we still know: we have to fight for every tomorrow!”
The President recalled the sufferings that Ukrainians have already overcome and are still overcoming. And assured that the people turned out to be stronger:
“We endure threats, shelling, cluster bombs, cruise missiles, kamikaze drones, blackouts, cold weather. We are stronger than that.”
What was the year from February 24, 2022 to February 24, 2023?
According to Zelenskyi:
“It was a year of courage.
The year of indifference.
A year of pain.
A year of hope.
A year of aging.
Year of unity.
The year of indomitability.
FEBRUARY. A YEAR OF INVINCIBILITY!”
The President of Ukraine admitted that the Ukrainians chose not to flee, but to meet. Meeting the enemy. Resistance and struggle:
“It was a year of pain, regret, faith and unity. And this is the year of our indomitability with you. We know that this will be the year of our victory with you!”
Olga SKOTNIKOVA
