• 11/10/2024

Lithuanian PM speaks in Ukrainian on Ukraine’s Independence Day, hoping for Ukraine’s victory “with electricity, gas, and no Russians”

Pravda Ukraine

Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has vowed to continue supporting Ukraine to bring victory closer.

Source: Šimonytė in a speech on St Sophia’s Square in Kyiv, alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Polish counterpart Andrzej Duda, as reported by European Pravda

Details: The Lithuanian prime minister delivered her speech in Ukrainian.

“It is a great honour and joy for me to be here today, celebrating Ukraine’s independence with the free and unbreakable people of Ukraine. Like the rest of the civilised world, I admire you and am deeply grateful, for by defending your land and statehood, you are defending us all: my homeland, Lithuania, Europe, and the entire democratic world,” said Šimonytė.

The Lithuanian prime minister said she believed that the day of Ukraine’s victory would come, stating that “we will celebrate it together in Ukrainian Crimea and free, proud Mariupol; that Ukrainians sheltered in Lithuania will come home and rebuild the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk [which will become part of] the EU and NATO; that Ukrainian children will come back to their homes in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Kherson oblasts, and that Ukrainian defenders will reunite with their loved ones and be back from the battlefield and captivity.

Šimonytė also expressed hope that those responsible for war crimes against the Ukrainian people and state would be brought to justice.

“Lithuania has been and will be with Ukraine every step of the way. We are doing and will continue to do everything to bring the victory closer, the victory of light over darkness, the victory of good over evil, the victory of free people, which we will celebrate together – with light, with gas and without Russians,” Šimonytė stressed.

Read also the greetings from the presidents of the Baltic states and many other Western leaders and ambassadors on the 33rd anniversary of Ukraine’s independence.

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