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Ukraine will fight to the end: Zelenskyy’s Independence Day vow

Ukrainian servicemen fire a self-propelled AHS Krab howitzer in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on August 23, 2022 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed in an Independence Day address that his country would fight Russia’s invasion “until the end” and would not make “any concession or compromise”.

In an emotional speech to mark Ukraine’s 31 years of independence from the Soviet Union, the president told Ukrainians their country had been “reborn” when Russia invaded and that it would never give up its fight for freedom from Moscow’s domination.

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