Ukraine is fighting for its future, Russia – for someone else’s past, that’s why we will win – Zelensky
Russia dreams of erasing the history of Ukraine, our statehood, our identity, denying our existence as such. To say that we never were. That we are an artificially created people, as if we are not people, but a variety of plants or a species of animals. To devalue our culture, to humiliate our language, to cross out our art. Our musicians, writers, philosophers, scientists, designers, inventors, all the great warriors and all the great warriors of Kievan Rus, the Zaporozhian Sich, who were, are and will be.
About it in the appeal to the student community of the leading universities of Great Britain was considered by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky.
“16 minutes 19 seconds. This is the record of The Boat Race, the legendary academic wedding on the Thames between Oxford and Cambridge. And the first in the history of the regatta took place on this day, June 10, almost 200 years ago, ”Volodymyr Zelensky reminded the students of a beautiful symbolic fact.
He added that he could compare the present in Ukraine with a heavy swim: against the current, waves and storms, where our state is a “stern”, sails to freedom, opposes the “Russian warship”, and it is important for us to feel that we are not alone.
“For 107 days in a row, Ukraine and our people have heroically opposed Russian aggression. For many, our steadfastness has become a mystery and almost a miracle. How the Oxford electric bell and its design: it is still unknown exactly how it is arranged and how it works. So is Ukraine, which for 107 days in a row continuously generates energy that resists the world’s second army and protects itself and Europe, and if Ukraine runs out of batteries – this will be a real energy crisis on the planet, “- said the President.
It is made that 107 days in a row we pass the test of survival, 107 days in a row Ukraine opposes barbarians, inhumans, dementors. The armies of those whose names, according to some politicians, cannot be named. Especially to refuse to buy oil, gas, etc. from him.
“For 107 days we have been facing an enemy who has not read one of the founders of the London School of Economics, Bernard Shaw. He does not recognize the worldview that now that we have learned to fly in the air like birds, to swim underwater like fish, we lack only one thing: to learn to live on earth as humans!
An enemy who does not recognize the truth, for which the rector of the University of Birmingham, Nobel Peace Prize winner and architect of the League of Nations Robert Cecil fought. About the vital need for people to resolve conflicts not in the trenches, but at the table. Arguments prevail over missiles, ”Zelensky added.
The President added that Russia speaks in black and white, in black – white, declares peaceful goals, but makes peaceful cities and villages its goals, kills women and children, calling it self-defense.
“80 years ago, Manchester survived the Christmas bombing. the number of rivers in the spring all over Ukraine survived the Easter bombing. 80 years ago, the Nazis razed Coventry. The anniversary of the racists created dozens of new Coventries in Ukraine. These are Bucha, Irpin, Borodyanka, Kharkiv, Mariupol, ”Zelen’s historical parallels were quoted, adding that Russia is a nuclear state that deserves a wooden spoon for ignorance of international law and the Darwin Prize for violating it.
The President of Ukraine reminded that recently students of the University of Yediburg exposed their professor for spreading Russian propaganda and lies in lectures about the war in Ukraine.
At the same time, students know the truth about Ukraine and the war, they know about Ukraine through the war. Read about the shelling of Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Odessa, Mariupol.
“Did you know that these cities are twins of Leeds, Birmingham and Liverpool?” Have you heard of “Kyiv Letter”? A document from the times of Ukraine-Russia, which is more than 1000 years old, which is stored in the Cambridge Library? About the first Margarita, the first saint of Scotland, the granddaughter of the Grand Duke of Kiev Yaroslav the Wise? Have you heard about the founder of Donetsk – Welsh engineer John Hughes? Or about the founder of Luhansk – the Scotsman Charles Gaskoy, who built a coal mine in Ukraine in the first place? ”Volodymyr Zelensky asked.
He decided that Russia was trying to destroy the history of Ukraine and Ukraine as such because it had a global phobia at the state level. This is a phobia of freedom. For them, it is unfamiliar, unknown, and therefore a force that is very frightening. This freedom is not in theirs, but in the neighboring country. Freedom nearby. For Russia, it is dangerously close. She wants to destroy it. But she plays. We are fighting for our future, they are fighting for someone else’s past.
“But the time of such countries and rulers has passed. And our time is our time, this is the future. And this is an active voice. Active voice. A real voice. The voice of truth, honor, wisdom and freedom.
And let’s talk to you in that voice today! I do not want this speech to last 16 minutes 19 seconds. So let’s finally get started! And I will be frank, I will be very candid, ”Volodymyr Zelenskyi summed up.
President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to participants in the Copenhagen Democratic Solitude, which last year raised the question of where the front line between freedom and oppression lies. the request of the year the answer became obvious: it runs in Ukraine. The state border of Ukraine is a relevant line of this confrontation.