According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, preserving national unity is the most important task for Ukrainians in order to win the war and become a member of the EU. “Preserving unity now, working together for victory, is the most important national task that we must master together,” Zelenskyy said in his daily video address yesterday.
If the Ukrainians can do that, they will succeed in what generations before had failed. To preserve independence from Russia, to transform itself into one of the most modern countries in the world and at the same time to go its own way towards Europe, which according to Zelenskyj will end with full membership of the EU.
To some extent, Zelenskyy’s speech was a response to Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s announcement that he intended to overthrow the “anti-people and anti-history leadership” in Kyiv. “Only those who do not know the real story and do not feel its importance might choose to attack us,” Zelenskyy replied. Ukrainians have been oppressed for centuries and will never give up their independence, the Ukrainian president assured.
