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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Andrius Sytas and Janis Laizans

Ukraine's Zelenska says: Commemorate resistance to aggression, not war anniversary

A TV screen shows Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska during an event marking the one year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, at a Ukrainian refugee shelter in Vilnius, Lithuania February 23, 2023. REUTERS/Janis Laizans

On Friday Ukraine will be commemorating not the first anniversary of the Russian invasion but a year of successful resistance, said Olena Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.

Remotely addressing an anniversary event in Vilnius, Lithuania, on Thursday evening, Zelenska said that Ukraine had suffered "a year of hell."

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