🗣 "If russia shakes your hand today, it doesn't mean that tomorrow it won't start killing you with the same hand": Volodymyr Zelenskyy's New Year's address to Ukrainians: main points from the speech of the President of Ukraine:

🔸 In 2024, 1,358 people were returned from captivity, 3,956 during the full-scale russian invasion;

🔸 1,310 cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as 7,800 Iranian Shaheds, were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses during the year;

🔸 30% of the weapons that the Ukrainian military had on the battlefield in 2024 were produced in Ukraine;

🔸 Zelensky also listed Ukrainian missiles: "Palyanytsia", "Peklo", "Ruta", "Neptun" and "Sapsan". As well as Ukrainian drones: "Gor", "Vampir", "Kolibri", "KAMIK", "Lyuty", Heavy Shot, Fire Point;

🔸 Speaking about global support, the President of Ukraine stated that "from the first minutes of this war, America has been with Ukraine" and added: "I believe that America will be with Ukraine in the first minutes of peace";

🔸 Zelensky also rejected the idea of ​​"starting from scratch" in russian-Ukrainian relations and, explaining the idea of ​​a just peace: "Because the score is not 0:0. On the score are thousands, thousands of Ukrainians whose lives were stolen by russia";

🔸 He also listed international initiatives to support Ukraine: the Czech initiative and a million shells, the Danish defense investment model, 27 security agreements, 50 billion euros in economic support from the European Union, the G7 decision on $50 billion in frozen russian assets;

🔸 He mentioned Moldova and Georgia as countries defending their freedom from the kremlin's influence. He expressed hope that Belarus would join them.

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