Inspirational Volodymyr Zelensky invoked Winston Churchill with a vow to fight Russian forces in the air, at sea and on land during a moving historic address to Parliament.
The video appearance by Ukraine’s president in a packed Commons earned an unprecedented two standing ovations.
He urged MPs to provide more help to ensure “Ukrainian skies are safe”. Hours later, Poland announced all 27 of its Soviet-built MiG-29 fighter jets, which Ukrainian pilots are trained to fly, will be sent to a US airbase in Germany to bolster Kyiv’s brave military effort.
We will not give up and we will not lose
LEO McKINSTRY Express columnist
AS UKRAINE battles heroically for its life, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has become an inspiring symbol of its resistance.
The former television comedian has been transformed by the conflict into a Churchillian bulldog, full of defiance, daring and determination.
Indeed, in his moving address to Parliament yesterday, Zelensky echoed Churchill’s famous pledge that Britain would “never surrender” to the Nazi forces but would “fight them on the beaches”.
In recent days, Zelensky has given powerful speeches by video to the US Congress and the European Parliament, where the translator briefly choked up after the president’s account of Russia’s indiscriminate attacks on civilians.
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