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Thank you really much! 

Expensive close friends!

Gitanas, Mr. President! Madam To start with Lady Diana!

Madam Speaker! Madam Prime Minister! 

Mrs. Paulė Kuzmickienė, thank you quite significantly for your text! 

Females and gentlemen deputies of the Seimas! All attendees!

Pricey Lithuanian persons!

I am glad to greet you and I want to thank you at the moment for not betraying freedom for a solitary moment.

And not only all through these 323 times of cruel, inhuman Russian war – when we continuously truly feel your guidance.

But for many yrs – when the free of charge hearts of Lithuanians and the Lithuanian path to a united Europe motivated many individuals in diverse nations around the world after enslaved by Russia.

Lithuania is and, I am positive, will continue on to be one of the most sincere defenders of liberty. And this is the very best way to honor the memory and feat of the heroes who defeated the empire on those wintertime times 32 many years ago.

Your persons did not just protect the structures of the Tv set centre, parliament and other folks. You defended your historical alternative.

Now we are also heading to victory. To the last victory around that empire.

Russia will no lengthier be in a position to dictate anything at all to the peoples of Europe when we conclusion this war with the unequivocal defeat of the aggressor.

Don’t forget February very last 12 months. Recall the offensive of Russian troops on Kyiv, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Chernihiv. It was considerably additional than Russia’s endeavor to seize our territory.

Encroaching on our towns, they intended the metropolitan areas of other unbiased states of Europe as very well.

Attacking Kyiv, they dreamed of attacking Vilnius. And Riga, and Warsaw, and Prague, and Chișinău.

They preferred our flexibility to tumble. 

But it is they who will fall. 

And now they have less and less these types of dreams. They are shedding the electrical power they boasted about. They are only conversing about regardless of whether they will manage not to reduce.

Nevertheless, this is not plenty of.

We ought to make sure that no aggressor will ever have the possibility to dream of a little something related and encroach on our flexibility.

This is what we are preventing for. This is why our victory should be unequivocal now. 

The 1 that can not be perplexed with just about anything. The just one that will not be forgotten in Russia. The one that are unable to be manipulated.

The aggressor should be defeated.

On the Ukrainian land where he arrived. So that it will not be vital to combat on the lands of other European nations later on. And now – so that Russia does not get a split, does not have time to adapt and can’t restore its energy.

This year is critical.

Back again then, when your people today experienced to defend their nationwide existence in opposition to Soviet revenge, it was unattainable to protract it in time. It was necessary to act below, to act now – to defend yourselves. 

Your folks have completed so. Lithuanian hearts were entirely mobilized.

And this was the key to your victory at that time.

Now we want even better mobilization – in the whole absolutely free world. This is the only way to place an conclusion to full-scale aggression. Whole terror. The electrical power of the battling planet need to not diminish.

And I thank you for currently being prepared to assistance us with this. I am confident, and I was confident of this the day before yesterday when I spoke with Gitanas, with Mr. President, in Lviv.

We need urgent choices by our overall anti-war coalition. New defensive decisions that will give Ukrainian warriors the chance to push the Russian army out of our land. And this issues, very first of all, present day tanks and powerful artillery.

We will need new sanction conclusions that will preserve constant and irresistible tension on the aggressor condition and on all financial actors that make sure the continuation of aggression.

And we have to have an worldwide tribunal, which will bring to justice all those whose evil minds gave beginning to this crime, this war. 

When the revanchists from existing-day Moscow will face a reasonable demo, it will be a historic punishment for all those revanchists who attempted to split our independence a era ago.

Dear good friends! 

This working day – Liberty Defenders Working day – is the suitable time to remind that freedom is alive when the concept of its security is alive. When there are individuals ready to fight for it. And when it is not just rhetoric, but authentic actions.

Steps that Ukraine sees from Lithuania invariably.

Actions that assistance us liberate our metropolitan areas and villages from Russian profession.

Actions that aid us guard our persons from Russian missiles and bombs – I want to thank you, Gitanas, I thank you and the entire Lithuanian individuals for the air protection gear furnished to us – from the first day to this day.

And also these are actions that deliver nearer the whole integration of Ukraine and the establishments of the United, totally free, tranquil Europe. And we are seeking forward to the NATO Summit in Vilnius. We know that it can become fateful for our overall Euro-Atlantic local community. We will do every thing to make it so. And we will do it alongside one another! 

Because record is generally the achievement of the cost-free.

Thank you, friends! Thank you for this honorary award for all Ukrainians who are combating for freedom!

I consider that we will earn! I know that we will get!

Glory to Ukraine!

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