“I’m not afraid of anyone”: Read President Zelensky’s full 9-minute speech to Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a video of himself in his workplace in Kyiv Monday evening, the primary time he has been seen there because the invasion started on Feb. 24. 

In a nine-minute speech, from behind his desk, on the Presidential Palace, Zelensky mentioned “the Ukrainian military holds its positions.” He added that he stays in Kyiv and is “not afraid of anybody.”

The Ukraine Presidential Workplace launched a transcript of his full speech. You may learn it beneath:

Monday. Night. , we used to say: Monday is a tough day. There’s a struggle within the nation. So daily is Monday. 

And now we’re used to the truth that daily and each evening are like that. 

Immediately is the twelfth. twelfth night of our wrestle. Our protection. 

We’re all on the bottom, we’re all working. 

Everyone seems to be the place they need to be. I’m in Kyiv. My staff is with me. The territorial protection is on the bottom. The servicemen are in positions. Our heroes! Medical doctors, rescuers, transporters, diplomats, journalists… 

Everybody. We’re all at struggle. All of us contribute to our victory, which will certainly be achieved. By power of arms and our military. By power of phrases and our diplomacy. By power of spirit, which the primary, the second and every of us have. 

Check out our nation immediately. 

Chaplynka, Melitopol, Tokmak, Novotroitske and Kherson. Starobilsk. In every single place individuals defended themselves, though they don’t have weapons there. However these are our individuals, and that is why they’ve weapons. 

They’ve braveness. Dignity. And therefore the flexibility to exit and say: I am right here, it is mine, and I will not give it away. My metropolis. My group. My Ukraine. 

Each Ukrainian man and lady who protested in opposition to the invaders yesterday, immediately and can protest tomorrow are heroes. 

We shout on the invaders along with you. We stand within the squares and streets with you. We’re not afraid with you when the invaders open hearth and attempt to drive everybody away. 

YOU don’t again down. 

WE don’t again down. 

And the one who repeated: “We’re one individuals” – definitely didn’t anticipate such a robust response. 

Within the south of our nation, such a nationwide motion has unfolded, such a robust manifestation of Ukrainianness that we’ve got by no means seen within the streets and squares there. And for Russia it is sort of a nightmare. 

They forgot that we aren’t afraid of paddy wagons and batons. We’re not afraid of tanks and machine weapons. When the principle factor is on our aspect, reality. As it’s now. 

Mariupol and Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy. Odesa and Kyiv. Mykolaiv. Zhytomyr and Korosten. Ovruch. And lots of different cities. 

We all know that hatred that the enemy dropped at our cities with shelling and bombing won’t stay there. There will likely be no hint of it. Hatred is just not about us. Subsequently, there will likely be no hint of the enemy. We are going to rebuild all the things. We are going to make our cities destroyed by the invader higher than any metropolis in Russia. 

Enerhodar. Chornobyl. And different locations the place barbarians simply do not perceive WHAT they need to seize. WHAT they need to management. Your work, your onerous work on essential objects is an actual feat. And we see it. We’re sincerely grateful for it. 

The Ukrainian military holds positions. Properly accomplished! It inflicts extraordinarily painful losses on the enemy. Defends. Counterattacks. If obligatory – can take revenge. Essentially. For each evil. For each rocket and bomb. For every destroyed civilian object. 

Immediately in Makariv, Kyiv area, they fired on the bread manufacturing unit. For what? The previous bread manufacturing unit! Give it some thought – to fireside on the bread manufacturing unit. Who must you be to do this? 

Or to destroy one other church – within the Zhytomyr area. The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin inbuilt 1862. 

These are NOT individuals. 

There was an settlement on humanitarian corridors. 

Did it work? Russian tanks labored as a substitute. Russian “Grads”. Russian mines. They even mined the street, which was agreed to move meals and drugs for individuals and kids in Mariupol. 

They even destroy buses that need to take individuals out. However … On the similar time, they’re opening a small hall to the occupied territory. For a number of dozen individuals. Not a lot to Russia, as to propagandists. On to their TV cameras. Like, that is the one who saves. Simply cynicism. Simply propaganda. Nothing extra. No humanitarian sense. 

The third spherical of negotiations in Belarus passed off immediately. I want to say – the third and closing. However we’re realists. So we are going to speak. We are going to insist on negotiations till we discover a method to inform our individuals: that is how we are going to come to peace. 

Precisely to peace. 

We should notice that daily of wrestle, daily of resistance creates higher circumstances for us. Sturdy place to ensure our future. In peace. After this struggle. 

Aside from the lifeless individuals and the destroyed cities, the struggle leaves destroyed the aspirations that when appeared crucial, however now … You do not even point out them. 

Virtually three years in the past, as quickly because the election passed off, we entered this constructing, this workplace, and instantly started planning our transfer. 

I dreamed of shifting from Bankova. Along with the federal government and parliament. To unload the middle of Kyiv and basically – to maneuver to a contemporary, clear workplace – as befits a progressive democratic European nation. 

Now I’ll say one factor: I keep right here. 

I keep in Kyiv. 

On Bankova Road. 

I’m not hiding. 

And I am not afraid of anybody. 

As a lot because it takes to win this Patriotic Warfare of ours. 

Immediately I signed a decree to current state awards of Ukraine to 96 Ukrainian heroes – our navy. 

Together with… 

The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of the second diploma is awarded to: 

Main Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Sak. Commander of the mechanized battalion who entered the battle with the battalion tactical group of the enemy and received due to a rational strategy to fight and non-standard techniques. 

Captain Rostyslav Oleksandrovych Sylivakin. Commander of the mechanized battalion, which efficiently fought the overwhelming forces of the enemy, liberating Ukrainian cities and villages within the Sumy area. 

The Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky of the third diploma is awarded to: 

Lieutenant Ihor Serhiyovych Lozovyi. Performing as a part of the group, he stopped a column of enemy autos numbering about 150 models, which was shifting within the path of the Zhytomyr-Kyiv route. Destroyed. 

Lieutenant Vitaliy Viktorovych Poturemets. He confirmed exemplary braveness and composure within the battle, destroying a column of enemy tools close to the town of Kyiv. He was wounded. 

The Order “For Braveness” of the third diploma is awarded to: 

Grasp Sergeant, Commander of the Vehicle Platoon Valentyn Viktorovych Baryliuk. Due to his courageous actions and private willpower, the tank unit acquired gasoline in time and left the encirclement, destroying the enemy on the best way. 

All 96 of our heroes are like these 5! 

Our gratitude to all of the navy. 

Our gratitude to the Armed Forces of Ukraine! 

Our gratitude is boundless. 

Glory to Ukraine!