The Ukrainian First Lady has urged the British people not to forget about the suffering in Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion over Christmas. Olena Zelenska was talking ahead of a planned speech to MPs and peers on Tuesday.
She is visiting London a few days after Prime Minister Rishi Sunak met Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv. She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: "We do hope that the approaching season of Christmas doesn’t make you forget about our tragedy and get used to our suffering."
Ms Zelenska praised the UK’s vocal support for the Ukrainian resistance efforts against Vladimir Putin’s forces, as the country braces for winter. “We feel that by the aid for our forcefully displaced people, by the political and financial assistance and by humanitarian aid we are receiving from the British," she said.
