Ukraine, Zelensky after 50 days of war: “They didn’t know us”

Ukraine-Russia war, “thank God, the Ukrainian Armed Forces and our people, we have defended most of our country”. Thus the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a speech released in the last few hours via Telegram in which he defined the “50 days of our defense” from the Russian invasion, from the “brutal assault”, as a “success” and in which he thanked all those who support Ukraine. Read also “A success of millions of Ukrainians”, urged Zelensky, recalling the first day of the invasion. “To put it mildly, no one was sure we would resist,” he said, adding that “many” had advised him to leave the country. “They suggested that we actually surrender to tyranny”, he said again, stressing that they did not know Ukrainians and how much they appreciate the freedom to “live as we want”. Zelensky said he saw many leaders in these 50 days in a “different way”. and to have “seen” some “politicians behave as if they have no power”. Russia, he warned, “will be responsible for everything it has done in Ukraine”.