Zelensky: We will fight as long as it takes to rid our country of occupation

Zelensky: We will fight as long as it takes to rid our country of occupation

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Ukrainian people are delivering a decent rebuff to the invaders and will fight as long as it takes to liberate our country.

This was emphasized by President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine in a video address to the nation, Ukrinform reports.

"We are strongly repelling the enemy. And I just want to say one thing: we will fight as long as it takes to liberate our country," he said.

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The president noted that today in Kyiv, there was a beautiful sunny day, which the invaders tried to destroy like everything else in our country’s history. He also said that today was the first day of life of a girl who was born this Saturday night in the Kyiv metro, which serves as a shelter for Kyiv residents.

"If children get to be born in shelters, under continuous shelling, the enemy has no chance in this people's war," Zelensky said.

As Ukrinform reported, a child was born on February 26 in one of the capital’s bomb shelters amid ongoing Russian aggression.

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The head of the aggressor state, Vladimir Putin, earlier announced the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. At about 4:00 am Kyiv time on February 24, Russia attacked Ukraine and unleashed a war.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky introduced martial law.

On the morning of February 24, the Verkhovna Rada approved the relevant presidential decree.

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