Zelenskyy: Every aid package had to be literally fought for, along with the faith in Ukraine
Every aid package, batch of weapons, and sanctions against Russia had to be literally fought for; the entire team sought solutions to ensure Ukraine stood firm, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
"Our team was here, the government, daily meetings with the military, calls, searching for solutions—everything necessary for Ukraine to stand firm. We had to deliver weapons. We delivered medicine, delivered food to cities blocked by the enemy. So that there would be the life for which Ukraine fights so desperately. And, to be honest, well, it happened in different ways, and both official and non-literary language was heard here, because every aid package, every sanction against Russia, every batch of weapons—all of this had to be literally... literally fought for. To fight for the faith in Ukraine," Zelenskyy says in an address on the fourth anniversary of the full-scale invasion by Russia.
According to the President, this was the key message of appeals to European countries, the US Congress, most parliaments, and to ordinary people around the world.
"These appeals worked because Ukrainians fought in a way that took one's breath away. And this resistance was visible from space. It was absolutely inspiring, so very soon everyone saw this blue and yellow sea—thousands of people with our flags in the squares of Europe and the world," he said.
The head of state recalls that Ukraine built, brick by brick, the support that allowed it to withstand the first day of the war, and then another, a week, and a month.
"And we saw spring. We won it when it seemed this February would never end. We gained our first spring during the great war. It was a turning point, and for the first time then, the thought flashed in everyone's mind: we can do it. Ukraine can do it," Zelenskyy said.
