[000:01:07;00] zelenskyi, we are all gathered here today in this historical moment to congratulate the president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi in the walls of the european parliament , this is an extraordinary moment, extraordinary times, it has been an hour since the brutal aggression of the illegal aggression of the sovereign ukraine by the russian federation began. all this time, your leadership inspired both

the ukrainian people and everyone countries of the world. all corners of the world today, when people think of ukraine, they think of heroes who bravely fight eh, these are icons, iconic pictures like eh the liberation of snake island, the de-occupation of many cities and towns, these heroes, their names will remain in history for many generations , every day, and ukraine continues to feed important countries with grain, you continue today, today, when the earthquake is happening in turkey and syria you are sending rescue equipment, this is true

solidarity. i am very proud to say that in these walls of european democracy, all the members here, all the countries, all the members were by your side, we understand that you are now fighting not only for our your values, but also for ours for our ideals that are on- i share our ideals and make us all europeans because ukraine is europe and the future of your nation in europe. in the european union, what is the sacrifice, we know what price ukraine pays for europe and we not only with your words, we are with you in actions , we are with you in political unity, we simplify trade

processes, we finance, we help you financially, we provide training for your military, we provide you with defensive weapons, which are so necessary for ukraine and now all countries and must quickly decide on the next steps, in particular with the provision of long-range tank systems and other heavy weapons. our response must be appropriate to the threat, but we see that the current threat is existential. food they had three

planes that fought for freedom one of the names of the plane was freedom and they fought only in the process of one day one day for freedom for them it's planes it was freedom and we don't now you need to convince us once again how important support in the country is to repay you in solidarity for all those lives that were laid on the battlefield in ukraine so that we ensure the victory of ukraine to ensure a peaceful peace so that evil does not remain unpunished and for that to ensure freedom for ukraine and all other countries which i already did for you when we met in kyiv in april we feel your

style we feel your support and you feel our rear we will be with you as long

as it takes victory will win and you you will win glory to ukraine thank you very much dear madam president roberta i thank you for these powerful words and thank you for your personal attention very important attention for ukraine thank you for your your and for your principled energy two qualities that we see unchanged during the current struggle for europe and more there is a combination is always a prerequisite progress is lucky that in this hall of the largest parliament of europe, the european parliament , principles and energy have the absolute

majority i thank you dear dear representatives of europe dear leaders of europe everyone we europeans, each and every one hundred million people on our continent, combine all two statuses of european representatives and european leaders , this combination reflects what our europe is modern europe peaceful europe gives to the world european way of life european way of life european way of life european rules of life when everyone and each one matters wenderlow rose

the rule of law when states strive to be social and open societies when diversity is a value and diversity of different combinations are connected by fair equality when borders are not broken but their intersection is not felt when people believe believe in tomorrow and are ready to go to the square to fight for their tomorrow when between the president and the protester there is only one single barrier and that is fair elections this is our europe our rules are like this our way of life and for

ukraine is way home the way to my home now now i am here to protect the way home of our people all ukrainians all ukrainian women of different ages and different political beliefs different social status different views on they are trying to destroy religion with different personal histories, but one european history with all of you, with a total war, but why, after the ukrainian european sports life , to destroy the european way as such for each of all 27 elements of the way of life of the 27

countries of the european union, we will not allow it, i am a total war now what was unleashed by russia, it is not only in terms of territory in one or another part of europe, its threat is its threat only in the fact that there is a dictator with insane stocks of soviet weapons and fueled by weapons from other dictatorships in particular, from the iranian regime, in order to be able to wage this war, the kremlin is absolutely cynical and consistently, step by step, year after year, destroyed destroyed what we see at the base of our europe with you, the sacred value of human life was completely destroyed, and in russia, no one is important to the authorities there except

those who are inside the kremlin walls, their relatives and wallets, everyone, everyone else, for them, for the kremlin, all 140 million citizens, only bodies are capable of carrying weapons, weapons to ukraine, weapons on the battlefield, keeping others in subjection or themselves being subject to supremacy, violence and obedience, that's rolls, instead of law, the russian regime not only hates any kind of anything, any kind of sociality and any diversity, but consciously invests in xenophobia and tries to make part of normality on our continent all that all that inhumane that was in the 1930s x 1940s but is it forever and this is a question for all of us relevant

no europe we defend ourselves from the most anti -european force in the modern world we defend ourselves we ukrainians are on the battlefield together with you and i thank you i thank you for the fact that we defend ourselves together and we have to defend ourselves and this is important not only for the states of europe, not only for the communities of europe. whoever we are, we always fight against contempt, wherever we live , we always bet on good faith , whatever we dream about with you for our children , for our grandchildren, the unconditional background for

of our dreams, we have peace and security , and will it be possible if we fail to overcome the anti-european force that seeks to steal all of europe from you and us - not only our victory, but all this will guarantee each of our common european values ​​with you, our a mandatory victory, dear representatives of europe, dear leaders of europe, dear panina, gentlemen, deputies, dear employees of the european parliament and other european institutions, dear journalists , dear employees of the security service, military police, rescuers

, dear municipal workers, diplomats, teachers, professors , scientists, dear doctors, drivers, police officers , farmers, industrialists, workers of industrial enterprises, owners businesses of small and large banks, dear energy workers and railway workers, dear students, schoolchildren trade union activists, representatives of public organizations, respected directors and artists, lawyers, judges, environmentalists, human rights defenders, the fate of europe has never depended only on politicians, there is no such illusion and now each and every one of you is important, each and every one of you is strong, each and every one of you is able to influence our joint result for our

joint victory and these applause are definitely not mine, these applause are gratitude i want to thank you to everyone in europe in hundreds of cities and towns who supported

ukraine, thank you to all the historical struggle thank you. i want to thank you to everyone who helped our people, our ordinary people, our displaced people , who called on their leaders to increase support for the protection of these our ordinary people, who came out on the square , who asked questions, who spread the truth about russian aggression, who got everything from the temptations of russian disinformation and who next to us in the fight for life in the fight for europe i thank you i thank everyone who helps ukraine with the vital supply of weapons and ammunition energy equipment and fuel

thousands and thousands of things without which i cannot survive in this total war . the european ambition to be the home of justice and freedom, and i remember the first days of the pavlo-scale invasion when the russian ambition to break us and all of europe was still defiant when the russian aggression was

just beginning to break its teeth against our defense, the european parliament already then, on march 1, on the sixth day of the full-scale war, adopted a resolution supporting not just our state, but the status of a candidate for joining the european union for our state, this was a vision that motivated us to be steady and stay on our path. thank you today at the meeting of the european council, i will have the opportunity to personally thank the heads of state of the governments of europe whether the decisions made this year really allowed our continent to do what the previous wave of leaders thought was impossible europe

is finally freed from destructive dependence from russian fossil fuels, europe is being cleansed of the corrupting influence of russian oligarchic business, europe is protecting itself from the infiltration of agents of the russian special services , who even considered europe as a place to hunt opponents of the russian dictatorship, for the first time in its history, the european union provides military aid of this scale and, for the first time in history, prepares, i believe positive assessment of internal reforms in a european country that is defending itself in this total war and at the same time

modernizing its institutions while fighting we are getting closer to the european union ukraine will be a member of the european union ukraine what ukraine is winning as a member of the european union the european union is winning dear friends, maybe before some people did not feel the full power of the european way yourpn way of life and now we together ukraine and the eu countries have made our miss obvious why this is possible because we combine principles and energy, we are all equal in that we represent europe and conscientious in that everyone is the leader of europe in their specific lives, we do not rely on words, we act, we we do not pass before the enemy we stand we do not lose time we change

and we change europe will always remain free as long as we are together and as long as we care about our europe care about the european way of life i thank all of you i invite all of you to ukraine glory to all

ukrainians ukrainians who in the battle glory to ukraine , the national anthem of ukraine sounded in the european parliament, you and i listened live to the speech of our president volodymyr zelenskyi at the plein-air session of the european parliament

, and now for your attention the program of refugees from angelica season book in which we tell the stories of ukrainians who are now looking for their destiny in european countries and not only because of the full-scale invasion of russia into ukraine. and today we will talk about the country of the offshore sun and the only divided capital in the world . this is the island of cyprus and my heroine today is a woman who she has almost devoted her whole life to the sky , who is a flight attendant by profession, but now she is happy and therefore on maternity leave , however, she is an active volunteer and public figure. this is iryna nechai, ira. have a good day

hi, i'm glad to finally hear from you. thank you for volunteering to tell your story. well, it's unusual for you, because many ukrainians went abroad when the full-scale russian invasion of ukraine had already begun, and you ended up on a business trip in cyprus and had to return from a flight on february 23, as far as i know . it is known, but they never returned . tell us why, by the way, i just realized today that i have been away from home for a year and that my business trip has been delayed for so long and for such a not pleasant reason that i had i'm coming back, my shift really ended on the 23rd, i have to return home , but at that moment my son and i decided to stay with friends for a few days in order to spend time together, we extended our stay in cyprus a little, we bought

tickets on the 28th, we planned to rent a car and travel around the island a little to make such a small vocation, but unfortunately on the 24th we found out that we probably won't get the information back just yet, and by the way, how did you find out that the war had started? tested directly in cyprus or read in the news did your relatives call you on the 24th at 11:00 p.m. i already had a premonition it was much earlier and on the 23rd it is impossible to think any given effective thoughts but i stopped having such a thought only tomorrow because it was where my goddaughter was born, it was always a special day for me and 24 in the morning i heard how messages started to arrive and there were a lot of them and i realized that something was wrong , uh, i took the phone, left the

room and called my husband. why are you why are you calling me, he says. i wanted you to sleep as deeply as possible and not know that we started a war. this is how a man should be. this is a real horror, but i know that you intuitively felt that the war would still start, unlike many ukrainians who, well, let's say - they reacted differently to the news a few months and even weeks before the full-scale invasion of russia and for the most part did not pack an alarming suitcase and did not think that such a big hot war was possible after all. however, you felt it and even asked your son to fly to cyprus just in case the day before of a full-scale invasion, tell me about your feelings now, by the way, he will be the first