the prime minister has the floor. of the republic of lithuania ingrid szymaniti. ukraine. it is a great honor and a great joy for me to be here with you on this day and celebrate and testify the independence of ukraine together with the free and inglorious people of ukraine. like the whole civilized world. i admire you and i am sincerely grateful to you. after all, by protecting your land and statehood, you protect all of us, my homeland, lithuania, europe and the entire democratic world. thank you, i wish you faith, stability, and of course, victory. i not only hope, i believe that the day of victory will surely... come, that we will celebrate it together in the ukrainian crimea and in the free and proud mariupol, that the ukrainians who received refuge in lithuania will return and the eu and nato cities, donetsk and luhansk will be rebuilt , ukrainian children will return to their homes, sumy region, kharkiv region, kherson region, who... will hug their loved ones, brave ukrainian defenders who will return from the front line and from captivity, that we once ... together