Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda spoke in Kyiv on the occasion of the celebration of Ukraine’s State Flag Day. He delivered his speech in Ukrainian, UNN reports.
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The Lithuanian leader recalled February 2022, when he visited Kyiv together with the then President of Poland, Andrzej Duda.
In those terrible days, all of Lithuania united to help Ukraine and its people. The streets of our cities were flooded with Ukrainian flags. It was a sight I had never seen anywhere else. The flags raised 42 months ago are still flying today. We continue to sincerely support your country. We know very well that Ukraine must win, because only your victory will bring peace and calm to all of Europe. That is why we will continue to support Ukraine. We do not recognize the occupation of Ukrainian territories. We will continue to increase pressure on the aggressor state and its allies
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Ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day, the leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Norway arrived in Kyiv.
The delegations’ visit to Kyiv is taking place on Ukraine’s State Flag Day and on the eve of the 35th anniversary of the declaration of independence.
UNN also reported that Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda had arrived in Kyiv ahead of Ukraine’s Independence Day.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke on the occasion of State Flag Day. The ceremonial events took place near the "Motherland-Mother" monument in Kyiv.
The head of state recalled that 70 years of Soviet rule failed to destroy Ukrainians’ national identity and national symbols. And even Russian aggression in 2014 and 2022 failed to do so.