Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has claimed that 16,000 international volunteers have arrived to help with their battle towards Russia.
In a March 3 video deal with one week into the battle, Zelensky reiterated how Ukraine is ready to proceed to rise up towards Russia's assaults and has now "began welcoming international volunteers" who're coming to the nation to affix the struggle.
Zelensky added Ukraine has additionally been receiving weapons every single day from its worldwide allies to help with the battle.
"The primary of 16,000 are coming to defend the freedom and lifetime of us and of everybody. I am positive it will likely be profitable," Zelensky mentioned, by way of Related Press.
The feedback arrived days after Ukraine introduced it was organising an "Worldwide Legion of Territorial Protection of Ukraine" for international volunteers who're prepared to assist the nation in its struggle with Russia.
"Collectively we defeated Hitler, and we'll defeat [Vladimir] Putin too," Dmytro Kuleba, the Minister of Overseas Affairs of Ukraine, tweeted on February 27 whereas confirming the plans.
Elsewhere throughout what was yet one more emotional speech, Zelensky mentioned Russia's navy concentrating on Ukraine's cities with missiles and bombs is "acknowledgment that they could not obtain something vital" with preventing on the bottom.
"The enemy does not have success at any strategic instructions," he mentioned. "They're disillusioned and misplaced. Kyiv has lived by this evening and one other missile bombing hit."
Zelensky mentioned Ukraine's efforts in preventing towards Russia have solely turn into stronger and that they may proceed to face as much as its neighbor.
"The primary hours and days of this nice struggle had been very troublesome, however we had been alone, which implies we had been very robust and survived," Zelensky mentioned.
"We are going to proceed to do that and we'll proceed to face," he added: "They had been oppressed. They're doomed."
Zelensky additionally promised to "rebuild each home, each avenue, each metropolis" when the battle ends and that Russia will "pay again the total value for all the things" it has destroyed throughout the invasion.
The Ukrainian president additionally vowed that Ukraine will survive the struggle, because it already lived by different disasters and tragedies equivalent to each world wars, the Chernobyl nuclear explosion, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the Holodomor famine, Reuters reported.
"We do not have the largest territory...we do not have nuclear arms, we do not present oil and fuel to worldwide markets. However we do have our individuals. We do have our land. That is what we're preventing for," he mentioned.
In a message to Putin, Zelensky additionally urged the Russian president to "go residence, to your property, shield your Russian-speaking individuals."
He added: "Not everywhere in the world—however in your individual residence. There are a lot of of them there, some 150 million. As for right here—Glory to Ukraine!"
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