Russia keeps people in civilisational blockade: Zelenskyy urges Ukrainians to communicate with those who are under occupation

Alyona Mazurenko – Monday, 13 June 2022, 22:06

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on Ukrainians to communicate with people who are caught in the temporarily occupied territory of the country and to bring them news.

Source: Presidential video address

Quote: "The aggressors are keeping the occupied territory not just in an information blockade, but in a civilisational blockade."

"I ask everyone who has the opportunity to communicate with people in the occupied south, in Donbas, in the Kharkiv region."

"Tell them about Ukraine. Tell them the truth. Tell them that liberation will come."

"Tell it to Kyrylivka, Henichesk, Berdyansk, Manhush. Tell it to Horlivka, Donetsk, Luhansk."

"Tell everyone in the Kharkiv region who is still forced to see the Russian flag on our Ukrainian land. Tell them that the Ukrainian army will definitely come."

"Of course, we will liberate our Crimea as well. The flag of Ukraine will fly once again over Yalta and Sudak, over Dzhankoi and Yevpatoriya."

"And let every Russian official who has seized precious land in Crimea remember: this is not the land where they will have peace."

Details: According to the President, Ukrainians are dealing with absolute evil: "We have no choice but to go on, to free our entire territory, to drive the aggressors out of all our oblasts."

He assured people that Ukrainian defenders will come to all occupied cities and liberate them: "We will come to all our cities [Kherson, Melitopol, Mariupol, Enerhodar]. We will come to all our villages which do not yet have our flag [on the administrative buildings]."

Quote: "We will rebuild everything that was destroyed by the aggressors – from Volnovakha to Chortkiv. Because this is Ukraine. And it is our destiny to return and strengthen it."

Volodymyr Zelenskyy added that the width of the front is now over 2,500 kilometres.