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00:00 Indeed, this was a searing indictment of Vladimir Putin by Volodymyr Zelensky.
00:06 He used all those expressions and challenged those in the room and essentially the Western
00:12 world asking them, well, if you want to still live in a rules-based world, you have to defeat
00:18 Putin.
00:19 And he says, instead of asking when the war in Ukraine will end, ask yourself why Vladimir
00:26 Putin is still able to conduct that very war.
00:30 He thanked the German Chancellor, the French President, for just signing a bilateral security
00:37 agreement in the previous days, as the one that was signed with the UK several weeks
00:44 ago.
00:45 He said that Ukraine was doing its utmost 724 days of resistance to Ukraine.
00:50 He said that, to Russia, I'm sorry, he said that this has broken the myth that Ukraine
00:55 doesn't exist as a country, that Russia's military is all-powerful and that Europe was
01:01 weak and unable to respond.
01:04 However, he said that this needs to continue because, again, an argument we've heard again
01:09 and again that this is not Ukraine's war, this is Europe's war.
01:12 And he also said that this concerns other parts of the world, Africa, Latin America,
01:18 Asia as well, because this was really a defining moment.
01:24 And he said that the struggle should continue.
01:25 Obviously, the support should continue.
01:28 He's hoping that, in addition to the security agreements I just mentioned with key European
01:32 countries, there will be much-needed support from Washington, namely that the House of
01:39 Representatives will take up and vote a bill that would fund and arm Ukraine.
01:45 This is seen as a key moment because this is seen as a symbol of whether the West still
01:50 believes that it needs to continue fighting for Ukraine or eventually push the Ukrainians
01:56 toward a negotiating table with Vladimir Putin.
01:59 With the death of Alexei Navalny, clearly Vladimir Zelensky told the West, well, know
02:06 who you're dealing with and don't force us to sit down with this man at the table.
02:11 This is not the right moment.
02:12 This is not the right person.
02:14 And this is now when the future needs to be defined.
02:17 Obviously, strong words.
02:18 But the reality is that on the front lines there is a stalemate.
02:23 And obviously, Ukraine was forced to withdraw from the town of Avdivka.
02:28 There was a long and terrible fight where tons of lives were lost on both sides.
02:35 Ukraine was forced to withdraw.
02:36 But Vladimir Zelensky is hoping that this is not the way the combat is going to happen
02:44 on the front lines.
02:46 This is only something that just happened and he's hoping to regain the momentum.