President Zelenskyy's emotional appeal to European leaders

Brut India

"European Union is going to be much stronger with us." Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the EU to prove that it was on Ukraine’s side in its war with Russia.

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00:00Life will win over death and light will win over darkness.

00:07Nobody is going to break us.

00:09We are strong. We are Ukrainians.

00:14We are fighting just for our land and for our freedom.

00:23Despite the fact that all large cities of our country are now blocked,

00:29nobody is going to enter and intervene with our freedom and country.

00:36And believe you me, every square of today, no matter what it's called,

00:42is going to be called as today Freedom Square in every city of our country.

00:50Nobody is going to break us.

00:52We are strong. We are Ukrainians.

00:56We have a desire to see our children alive.

01:05I think it's a fair one.

01:07Yesterday, 16 children were killed.

01:11Again and again, President Putin is going to say that it's some kind of operation

01:17and we are hitting a military infrastructure.

01:20Where are our children? What kind of military factories do they work at?

01:25What tanks are they going with or launching cruise missiles?

01:31He killed 16 people just yesterday.

01:33Our people are very much motivated, very much so.

01:37We are fighting for our rights, for our freedoms, for life, for our life.

01:44And now we are fighting for survival.

01:48And this is the highest of our motivation.

01:52But we are fighting also to be equal members of Europe.

02:00I believe that today we are showing everybody that's exactly what we are.

02:11The European Union is going to be much stronger with us, that's for sure.

02:16Without you, Ukraine is going to be lonely, lonesome.

02:22We have proven our strength.

02:25We have proven that, at a minimum, we are exactly the same as you are.

02:33So do prove that you are with us.

02:36Do prove that you will not let us go.

02:41Do prove that you indeed are Europeans.

02:45And then life will win over death and light will win over darkness.

02:54Glory be to Ukraine.

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