The President of Ukraine spoke to the EP
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday that the time has come for the members of the European Union to prove that they are with Ukraine and thus that they "are in fact European". MEPs responded to his speech with a prolonged ovation.
“We are strong, we are Ukrainians. We want our children to be able to live – it's probably an honest dream,” Zelenskiy said in a speech over the video link.
As he added, the rockets hit Freedom Square in Kharkiv on Tuesday, but soon "all squares in Ukraine will be called freedom squares" because Ukrainians are not going to surrender.
“16 children died yesterday. President Putin will keep repeating again and again that this is some kind of operation that (Russian forces) are attacking the military infrastructure. What military infrastructure do our children work in? Where are the tanks they (allegedly) drive? Only yesterday (Putin) murdered 16 children,” Zelenskiy noted in an emotional speech.
The Ukrainian leader said that Ukrainians give away "the best, strongest, most valuable people" for values such as freedom and equality, common among the peoples of the European Union.
He also assured that he felt that the Western countries had united in defense of Ukraine, but stressed that war is "a tragedy for his country, for him, it is an extremely high price" that the Ukrainians are paying for this European unity.
