Zelenskyy urges everyone who can to stay to defend their cities

Iryna Balachuk – Saturday, 5 March 2022,11:44

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged all those Ukrainians in Mariupol, Volnovakha, and other cities who are able to stay, to stay and defend their cities.

Source: Zelenskyy’s video address on the morning of 5 March

Quote: "Humanitarian corridors will be operating today to save the women, children, and the elderly of Mariupol and Volnovakha. To deliver food and medication to those who are staying. Help is on its way.

Everyone who needs help must have an opportunity to leave [those cities].

Everyone who can defend their city must continue fighting. Must. Because if everyone leaves, then whose city will it be?"

Details: Zelenskyy reiterated that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are firmly holding all main lines of defence, launching a counteroffensive near Kharkiv, and holding Mykolayiv and Kyiv, as well as the Chernihiv, Sumy, and Donetsk regions.

According to the President, Ukrainian forces are inflicting enormous damage on the occupying army.

Zelenskyy also stated that he admires every Ukrainian who has been protesting, who marches toward a Russian tank bearing a Ukrainian flag. Each Ukrainian who "shows the Russian troops that they can only lose."

The President underscored that "it is impossible to defeat a people who stop military equipment with their bare hands and refuse to take anything that the occupiers offer."