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We must do everything to ensure that the clause of the Peace Formula on the return of all prisoners and deportees is implemented – address by Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the participants of the International Platform for the Release of Civilians Illegally Detained
26 February 2024 - 17:58
https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/mayemo-zrobiti-vse-shob-punkt-formuli-miru-shodo-povernennya-89337
“Ladies and gentlemen!
I would like to thank all those who participate in the meeting and support Ukrainian efforts to free our people from Russian captivity.
Today, no one can say for sure how many of our citizens – children and adults, warriors and civilians – are being held in Russian captivity, in Russian deportation, in camps, and how many of our people are in the prisons of this terrorist state. But each of us can and must speak with absolute certainty and specificity: we must do our best to bring all these people home to Ukraine. I am happy every time we succeed, when Ukrainians return, when they are greeted here with the flag of our country, on our land. When they are met by their families and friends. This is very important.
The return from Putin’s Russia to Ukraine is really a return from the embrace of death.”
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