"We Will End This War in the Interests of Ukraine and Whole of Europe" - Zelenskyy in the Bundestag
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that it is necessary to end the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine, as it threatens the entire European continent.
The Ukrainian president said this in a speech to the Bundestag on 11 June.
"Divided Europe has never been peaceful. And divided Germany has never been happy. You know all this not from me, you know it from your own experience. And so you can understand us, Ukrainians. You can understand why we are fighting so hard against Russia's attempts to divide us, to divide Ukraine. Why we do everything, absolutely everything, to prevent a wall between the parts of our country. No country should be doomed to have its body torn apart by barbed wire for decades," Volodymyr Zelenskyy said to the German MPs.
"We will end this war. We will end it in the interests of Ukraine and in the interests of the whole of Europe. For all of us. And all those who will come after us. We will end it on our own terms. Terms that are understandable to any person, an ordinary person on this earth," the President of Ukraine added.
He reminded that the Global Peace Summit, which will soon take place in Switzerland, will discuss ‘the full restoration of security and the movement towards real peace’.
"We want to give diplomacy a chance and have gathered about a hundred states for this purpose. Ukraine has never relied on the power of arms alone. Yes, we understand what kind of killers we have to fight against today. And we will not forget that only weapons effectively stop them and protect our lives. But we also remember that peace does not grow from shots, but from guarantees, from reliable guarantees that there will be no more shots and evil will no longer come to the land of the people who wanted to destroy it," Zelenskyy stressed.
As a reminder, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Germany on a working visit to participate in the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 11-12 June and hold talks with Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz on further support for Ukraine.