Zelenskyy: ‘I don’t want to see Ukraine divided like Germany was’

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Volodymr Zelenskyy says Ukraine must not end up like Germany was from 1961-1989 when a wall ran down the country’s middle. The Ukrainian President was talking after meeting European allies to discuss post-war rebuilding.

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00:00Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has been here in Berlin on Tuesday addressing Parliament,

00:05the Bundestag just behind me, and a conference that's been discussing what's going to happen

00:10with Ukraine and how the rebuilding is going to go on in Ukraine post-conflict. Two messages

00:16coming out loud and clear. One from the Ukrainian President himself saying that he didn't want to

00:23see his country divided the way that Berlin had been divided by, of course, the Berlin War between

00:301961 and 1989. That was a message to those parliamentarians here in Germany who want

00:36to see the conflict frozen. There was also a clear message from both President Zelensky and

00:42President von der Leyen that, as far as they see it, Ukraine's future lies within the European

00:47Union. President Zelensky saying his country had ticked all of the boxes needed to start

00:52the accession talks and President von der Leyen saying she wanted to see those talks starting

00:57by the end of this month.

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