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Volodymyr Zelenskiy delivered a powerful, and oftentimes personal address to Canada’s parliament on Tuesday, asking prime minister Justin Trudeau how he would feel if it were his country facing the Russian onslaught.
“Imagine that at 4am each of you start hearing bomb explosions. Severe explosions. Justin, can you imagine hearing it? You, your children hear all these severe explosions: bombing of airport, bombing of Ottawa airport, tens of other cities of your wonderful country. Can you imagine that?” Zelenskiy said.
“What words? How can you explain to your children full-scale aggression just happened in your country? You know that this is war to annihilate your state, your country. You know that this is the war to subjugate your people.”

The themes of Zelenskiy’s Canadian address, asking for more military and humanitarian aid, and a Nato-enforced no-fly zone over Ukraine, broadly echoed his speech to the UK parliament a week earlier.
During his virtual address to British MPs, Zelenskiy invoked the spirit of Winston Churchill’s second world war speeches, stating that Ukraine would fight Russia “until the end, at sea, in the air. We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost.
“We will fight in the forests, in the fields, on the shores, in the streets,” he said.