Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a video of himself in his place of work in Kyiv Monday night time, the primary time he has been observed there for the reason that invasion started on Feb. 24.
In a nine-minute speech, from in the back of his table, on the Presidential Palace, Zelensky stated “the Ukrainian military holds its positions.” He added that he stays in Kyiv and is “no longer petrified of someone.”
The Ukraine Presidential Place of business launched a transcript of his complete speech. You’ll be able to learn it underneath:
Monday. Night time. You realize, we used to mention: Monday is a troublesome day. There’s a warfare within the nation. So on a daily basis is Monday.
And now we’re used to the truth that on a daily basis and each and every night time are like that.
Lately is the twelfth. twelfth night time of our fight. Our protection.
We’re all at the floor, we’re all operating.
Everyone seems to be the place they will have to be. I’m in Kyiv. My crew is with me. The territorial protection is at the floor. The servicemen are in positions. Our heroes! Docs, rescuers, transporters, diplomats, newshounds…
Everybody. We’re all at warfare. All of us give a contribution to our victory, which is able to certainly be completed. Via pressure of hands and our military. Via pressure of phrases and our international relations. Via pressure of spirit, which the primary, the second one and each and every people have.
Check out our nation lately.
Chaplynka, Melitopol, Tokmak, Novotroitske and Kherson. Starobilsk. Far and wide folks defended themselves, even if they don’t have guns there. However those are our folks, and that’s the reason why they have got guns.
They have got braveness. Dignity. And therefore the facility to head out and say: I am right here, it is mine, and I would possibly not give it away. My town. My group. My Ukraine.
Each and every Ukrainian guy and girl who protested in opposition to the invaders the day past, lately and can protest day after today are heroes.
We shout on the invaders along side you. We stand within the squares and streets with you. We aren’t afraid with you when the invaders open fireplace and check out to force everybody away.
YOU don’t backpedal.
WE don’t backpedal.
And the one that repeated: “We’re one folks” – for sure didn’t be expecting the sort of robust response.
Within the south of our nation, the sort of nationwide motion has opened up, the sort of robust manifestation of Ukrainianness that we’ve got by no means observed within the streets and squares there. And for Russia it is sort of a nightmare.
They forgot that we aren’t petrified of paddy wagons and batons. We aren’t petrified of tanks and gadget weapons. When the principle factor is on our aspect, reality. As it’s now.
Mariupol and Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy. Odesa and Kyiv. Mykolaiv. Zhytomyr and Korosten. Ovruch. And plenty of different towns.
We all know that hatred that the enemy delivered to our towns with shelling and bombing is not going to stay there. There will likely be no hint of it. Hatred isn’t about us. Subsequently, there will likely be no hint of the enemy. We can rebuild the whole thing. We can make our towns destroyed via the invader higher than any town in Russia.
Enerhodar. Chornobyl. And different puts the place barbarians simply do not perceive WHAT they need to seize. WHAT they need to keep an eye on. Your paintings, your arduous paintings on crucial gadgets is an actual feat. And we see it. We’re sincerely thankful for it.
The Ukrainian military holds positions. Neatly achieved! It inflicts extraordinarily painful losses at the enemy. Defends. Counterattacks. If vital – can take revenge. Essentially. For each and every evil. For each and every rocket and bomb. For each and every destroyed civilian object.
Lately in Makariv, Kyiv area, they fired on the bread manufacturing unit. For what? The outdated bread manufacturing unit! Consider it – to fireside on the bread manufacturing unit. Who will have to you be to try this?
Or to break any other church – within the Zhytomyr area. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin inbuilt 1862.
Those are NOT folks.
There used to be an settlement on humanitarian corridors.
Did it paintings? Russian tanks labored as an alternative. Russian “Grads”. Russian mines. They even mined the street, which used to be agreed to move meals and drugs for folks and youngsters in Mariupol.
They even break buses that experience to take folks out. However … On the identical time, they’re opening a small hall to the occupied territory. For a number of dozen folks. No longer such a lot to Russia, as to propagandists. Immediately to their TV cameras. Like, that is the one that saves. Simply cynicism. Simply propaganda. Not anything extra. No humanitarian sense.
The 3rd spherical of negotiations in Belarus happened lately. I want to say – the 3rd and ultimate. However we’re realists. So we will be able to communicate. We can insist on negotiations till we have the ability to inform our folks: that is how we will be able to come to peace.
Precisely to peace.
We will have to understand that on a daily basis of fight, on a daily basis of resistance creates higher prerequisites for us. Robust place to ensure our long run. In peace. After this warfare.
Except for the lifeless folks and the destroyed towns, the warfare leaves destroyed the aspirations that when appeared essential, however now … You do not even point out them.
Virtually 3 years in the past, as quickly because the election happened, we entered this development, this place of work, and right away started making plans our transfer.
I dreamed of shifting from Bankova. Along side the federal government and parliament. To dump the middle of Kyiv and typically – to transport to a contemporary, clear place of work – as befits a revolutionary democratic Eu nation.
Now I can say something: I keep right here.
I keep in Kyiv.
On Bankova Side road.
I’m no longer hiding.
And I am not petrified of someone.
Up to it takes to win this Patriotic Struggle of ours.
Lately I signed a decree to give state awards of Ukraine to 96 Ukrainian heroes – our army.
Together with…
The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of the second one stage is awarded to:
Primary Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Sak. Commander of the mechanized battalion who entered the fight with the battalion tactical team of the enemy and received due to a rational solution to fight and non-standard techniques.
Captain Rostyslav Oleksandrovych Sylivakin. Commander of the mechanized battalion, which effectively fought the overpowering forces of the enemy, releasing Ukrainian cities and villages within the Sumy area.
The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of the 3rd stage is awarded to:
Lieutenant Ihor Serhiyovych Lozovyi. Performing as a part of the crowd, he stopped a column of enemy automobiles numbering about 150 gadgets, which used to be shifting within the course of the Zhytomyr-Kyiv course. Destroyed.
Lieutenant Vitaliy Viktorovych Poturemets. He confirmed exemplary braveness and composure within the fight, destroying a column of enemy apparatus close to the town of Kyiv. He used to be wounded.
The Order “For Braveness” of the 3rd stage is awarded to:
Grasp Sergeant, Commander of the Car Platoon Valentyn Viktorovych Baryliuk. Due to his courageous movements and private decision, the tank unit gained gas in time and left the encirclement, destroying the enemy at the manner.
All 96 of our heroes are like those 5!
Our gratitude to the entire army.
Our gratitude to the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
Our gratitude is boundless.
Glory to Ukraine!
