He received a standing ovation from some of the deputies present in the hemicycle. This Friday, June 7, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the National Assembly accompanied by the President of the National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet. “The resilience of the Ukrainian people is the pride of the French […] We are honored,” she declared in the preamble.
The Ukrainian head of state paid tribute “to France” and to the fighters of the Second World War, the day after the D-Day commemoration celebrations. “Our Europe is the result of the courage of these fighters,” he declared. “Today some seek to divide Europe […] to destabilize Europe, lamented Volodymyr Zelensky, referring to Russia. “Putin is the anti-Europe. We have no right to lose,” he assured.
“Europe is no longer a continent of peace” since the start of the invasion of Ukraine, said President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling Russian President Vladimir Putin “a common enemy” of his country and the ‘Europe. “We live in a time when Europe is no longer a continent of peace,” declared the Ukrainian president, asserting that Russia’s invasion of his country had brought back “Nazism (…) again in Europe”.