Zelenskiy invokes Churchill as he calls on UK to do more to help Ukraine
by Peter Walker Political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#5WWP8)
President tells Commons Ukraine will fight Russia in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets'
The president of Ukraine echoed Winston Churchill and invoked the fight against Nazism as he made a direct plea to Britain to do more to help his country repel the Russian invasion.
In an unprecedented and emotional speech broadcast live to the House of Commons, Volodymyr Zelenskiy channelled Churchill when he told a packed chamber: We will continue fighting for our land, whatever the cost. We will fight in the forests, the fields, the shores and in the streets."
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