Zelensky: The world must understand Ukrainians are defending their right to live

Zelensky: The world must understand Ukrainians are defending their right to live

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has stated that the world must understand that the Ukrainian people are now defending their right to live in the modern world.

“We are defending the ability of a person to live in the modern world. They say we're defending Western values. I always say, what are Western values? Someone who lives in the United States or Europe, do they also not like children? Do they not want their children to go to university, do they not want their grandfather to live for 100 years? We have the same values,” he said in an interview with CBS News, Ukrinform reports.

Zelensky also stressed that he had never thought the right to live was so costly: “These are human values.”

“So that Russia doesn't choose what we should do and how I'm using my rights. That right was given to me by God and my parents,” he said.

Read also: Von der Leyen, Borrell see firsthand consequences of Russian atrocities in Bucha

When asked what he witnessed in Bucha during his visit this week, Zelensky responded, "Death. Just death."

As Ukrinform reported, the cities of Irpin, Bucha, Hostomel, and the entire Kyiv region were liberated from Russian invaders. Mass killings of civilians by Russians have been recorded in liberated towns and villages. Victims of these war crimes have already been found, including raped women who the invaders tried to burn, local government officials killed, children killed, elderly people killed, men killed, many of them with tied hands, traces of torture and shot in the back of the head.

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