Ukraine offers Europe victory to save itself - Zelensky in Aachen
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, said that Ukraine offers Europe a victory in order to preserve itself.
"To preserve such a Europe that values peace. Ukraine offers a victory that will turn into peace - and not only for us. Ukraine offers victory not just in this one war, but over aggressions and annexations, the burning of cities and deportations, over the catastrophe of genocide anywhere else on Earth," he said during his speech at the award ceremony on Sunday. Charlemagne in Aachen, Censor.NET reports.
"This battlefield is the fate of Europe. Today's Russia has acted aggressively not only against us as a free state, not only against united Europe as a global symbol of peace and prosperity, this is Russia's war for the past," Zelensky said.
According to the Ukrainian president, "overcoming kilometers of Ukrainian territory, Russia tried to overcome years of European history. The history is ours and yours, precisely those seventy-three years when The Charlemagne Prize is awarded here. We faced an aggressor who goes to any cruelty and meanness to claim that supposedly history does not change."
Russia, he said, "of its own free will set out on the path of evil. Our will is enough to cut off this path of hers and the path of any aggressors who may someday try to repeat it after Russia."
"Today I spoke only about what is needed for our joint victory, which means only what is needed for lasting peace for all of us. I dream that Europe will become the winner! I know that Ukrainians can win! I call on all of you to become winners together with the Ukrainians! The time has come! Right now it is being decided what the end of this war will be and whether this is really the last aggression in Europe. Everything depends on our unity with you, on our speed with you, on our determination to win with you." , - said Zelensky.
