“Tomorrow begins the week when we will celebrate the Day of Ukrainian Statehood for the first time. We will celebrate July 28 for the first time during such a brutal war – in the sixth month. After eight years of war in the Donbass. But we will celebrate. Despite everything. Because Ukrainians cannot be broken,” he said .
Zelensky expressed the opinion that this holiday will be between the generations of the Ukrainian people.
He emphasized that Ukrainian culture and identity, the nature of the people and the experience of building the state are more than 1 thousand years old.
“Now in many feats of our soldiers, in the wisdom of our people in battles, even just in the conversations of ordinary Ukrainians about what is happening, we can see, we can hear and understand examples of the same characters, but hundreds of years ago. We can see examples of the same courage, such same attitude to life and, most importantly, attitude to Ukraine and to the enemy. Only those who do not know the truth of history at all and do not feel its meaning at all could decide to attack us. After everything that our people went through, after everything that we have learned over the centuries, Ukrainians will never give up their independence,” the president added.
He said that now the most important task of the Ukrainian nation is to preserve unity and work together for victory, and expressed confidence that the Ukrainians will succeed.
“This is a task that all of us will definitely fulfill. This means that we will be able to do what previous generations could not do before. This applies to our defense in this war for independence, and our movement towards a united Europe, towards full membership in the EU, and our ability to become one of the most modern states in the world. There is no one who would doubt this now. There are only those who argue how to achieve this. It will be. This is a sign of faith in Ukraine – not only our own faith. Even the occupiers recognize that we will win. We hear it in their conversations – constantly, about what they tell their loved ones when they contact them. Therefore, we do not relax and, like every day for five months, we do everything to inflict the greatest losses on the enemy and gather as much support for Ukraine as possible,” Zelensky continued.
He announced important visits of partners and talks, but did not give any details about it.
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War of Russia against Ukraine. The main thing (updated)
July 28 is celebrated annually in Ukraine Day of the Baptism of Rus-Ukraine. The holiday was established according to the presidential decree of July 25, 2008. On the same day, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Vladimir, the Baptist of Russia.
August 24, 2021, on the Independence Day of Ukraine, Zelensky announced a new holiday – Day of Ukrainian statehood, which will be celebrated on July 28, and signed the relevant decree.
In May 2022 Rada approved the introduction of the holiday, the relevant law is already entered in force
In the Russian Federation, they were outraged because of the choice of the date for the holiday. GLava Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov stated that Ukraine “privatized the Day of the Baptism of Russia”. “RRussian colleagues, Ukraine, unlike you, does not need to “privatize” anything, because we have been on our land for a thousand years, and we remain on it. It is you who come to a foreign land, trying to appropriate it,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba answered this.
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