Transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s speech to Parliament
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the unprovoked invasion by Russia into his country is an attempt to 'annihilate' the Ukrainian people.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy addressed the Canadian Parliament on Tuesday as Russia‘s unprovoked invasion of his country nears the end of its third week.
Below is the English interpretation of his remarks, which were given in Ukrainian.
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Thank you very much. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Speaker, prime minister, dear Justin, members of the government, members of the Parliament, all distinguished guests, friends: before I begin, I would like you to understand my feelings, and feelings of all Ukrainians as far as it is possible.
Our feelings over the last 20 days; 20 days of a full-scale aggression of Russian Federation after eight years of fighting in Donbas region. Can you only imagine?
Imagine that at 4 a.m., each of you start hearing bomb explosions. Severe explosions. Justin, can you imagine hearing it? You, your children hear all these severe explosions: bombing of airport, bombing of Ottawa airport, tens of other cities of your wonderful country. Can you imagine that?
Cruise missiles falling down, and your children asking you, ‘What happened?’ And you’re receiving the first news which infrastructure objects have been bombed and destroyed by Russian Federation, and you know how many people already died.
Can you only imagine? What words, how can you explain to your children full-scale aggression just happened in your country? You know that this is war to annihilate your state, your country. You know that this is the war to subjugate your people.
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