KYIV (REUTERS) – President Volodymyr Zelenskiy insisted on the Ukrainians at the Ukrainians not to give up that peace will return to their country and to persist to overcome the difficult path of war on which they have been traveling for 1,152 days.
Wearing a gray traditional Ukrainian vyshyvanka embroidered shirt and stands for Kyiv's Main Church, Saint Sophia Cathedral, said Zenskiy in a video on social media that Ukraine never loses faith.
“Because this belief is in each other,” said Zenskiy, who is Jewish, in a message full of lyricism and emotion. “In those who stand next to you. In Ukrainian men, in Ukrainian women. Believe that the harm can have his hour, but God will have his day.”
The Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a surprise to a day on Saturday -the Fires in Ukraine for Easter -which this year falls on the same day for Orthodox and Western churches. But Zelenskiy said earlier on Sunday that the Russian army made a pretension of a break into hostilities, to continue with the nocturnal attempts to bring front-line losses to Ukraine.
“We know what we defend. We know what we are fighting for. For those and whose interests,” said Zenskiy.
“The day of life will come. The day of peace. The day of Ukraine. A day that lasts a century. And we will be able to gather again. At one table. On a peaceful Easter.”
(Reporting by Pavel Policeuk in Kiev and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; adaptation by William Mallard)
