The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, gave his Easter message this Sunday in the Kiev Cathedral, where he called for unity and affirmed that “light will overcome darkness”.
“Today's holiday gives us great hope and unwavering faith that light will overcome darkness, good will overcome evil, life will overcome death, and therefore Ukraine will surely win,” said the president on the 60th day of Putin's invasion.
“The Lord and the holy heavenly light are on our side,” he added. “We are going through very difficult tests. Let us come to a fair end on this road: the beginning of a happy life and prosperity of Ukraine.”
“On Easter, we ask God for great grace so that our dream will come true - this is another great day - the day when great peace will come to Ukraine,” he said.
Zelensky spoke before the arrival in Kiev of the heads of diplomacy and defense of the United States, for his first visit since Russia invaded Ukraine two months ago, at a time when bloody battles are taking place in the east of the country.
US Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and Defense Lloyd Austin visit the Ukrainian capital as the war enters its third month with thousands dead and millions displaced.
Since the beginning of the war, several European leaders traveled to Kiev to meet with the Ukrainian president and provide support to Ukraine, but the United States had not yet sent any high office.
On Saturday night, in his daily video message, Zelensky said he was preparing for “important talks with American allies.”
Denunciation of Russian concentration camps and deportations to Siberia
In his video message, Zelensky also said that Russian invaders are holding Ukrainian citizens in the temporarily occupied territories in so-called filtration camps, from where they are sent to Siberia and the Far East of Russia.
“Russia continues to support the activities of the so-called filtration camps, including near Mariupol. Although the proper name is really different: they are concentration camps. Like those that were also built by the Nazis at the time,” he said.
He added that “Ukrainians from these camps - the survivors - are sent to occupied territory and to Russia. There have been acts of deportation of our citizens within Russia, to Siberia, even to Vladivostok,” he denounced.
“They also deport children in the hope that they will forget where their home is, where they are from. And they are from Ukraine,” he stressed.
At the same time, he reported that new facts about the crimes of Russian invaders against the inhabitants of Mariupol are being discovered and burial places are being established for the people killed by the Russians.
“We are talking about tens of thousands of residents of Mariupol killed. The invaders' conversations about how to hide the traces of their crimes are being recorded,” he said.
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