It is my great privilege to introduce to you all,
the President of Ukraine, our friend for Volodymyr Zelensky.
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Before I begin I would like you to understand my feelings and feelings of all Ukrainians
as far as it is possible.
Our feelings over the last 20 days, 20 days of a full scale aggression of Russian Federation,
after eight years of fighting in Donbass region.
Can you only imagine?
Imagine that on at 4 a.m. each of you, you start hearing bomb explosions, severe explosions.
Justin, can you imagine hearing – you, your children hear all these severe explosions.
Bombing of airport – bombing of Ottawa airport.
Tens of other cities of your wonderful country. Can you imagine that?
They bombed school buildings. They destroyed
kindergarten facilities like in our city. City of Sumy, like in the city of Okhtyrka.
Imagine that someone is taking siege to Vancouver.
Can you just imagine that for a second? And all these people who are left in such city.
And this is exactly the situation that our city of Mariupol is suffering right now. And they
are left without heat or hydro or without means of communicating, almost without food, without water.
Can you imagine famous CN tower in Toronto,
if it was hit by Russian bombs? Of course I don't wish this on anyone.
But this is our reality in which we live, we have to contemplate, we have to
see where the next bombing will takes place.
It used to be very peaceful country, peaceful cities, but now they're being constantly
bombarded. Basically what I'm trying to say that we all need to do – you all need to do more
to stop Russia. To protect Ukraine, and by doing that to protect Europe from Russian threat.
They're destroying everything. Memorial complexes, schools, hospitals,
housing complexes. They already killed 97 Ukrainian Children.
We are not asking for much. Please understand how important it is for us to close our airspace
from Russian missiles and Russian aircrafts.
I hope you can understand, I hope you can increase your efforts. You can increase
sanctions. So they will not have a single dollar to fund their war effort.
Commercial entities should not be working in Russia.
You Canadians, you know very well, all this.
That's why I'm asking you please do not stop in your efforts. Please
expand your efforts to bring back peace in our peaceful country.
I would like to also ask our Ukrainian diaspora in Canada. This is a historical moment and we
need your support, your practical support, and we hope that with your practical steps you will
show that you are part more than Ukrainian history.
Please remember this is practical – more than the history of Ukraine. We want to live.
We want to have peace. I am grateful to every one of you in the Parliament of
Canada who is present there, to every Canadian citizen. I am very grateful to you Justin.
I am grateful to Canadian people. And I am confident that together we will overcome
and will be victorious. Glory to Ukraine. Thank you to Canada.