ATHENS, April 7 — Ukraine’s president urged Europe to take a stronger stand against Russia in a video address to Greece’s parliament today that invoked the battle cry of 19th century Greek patriots in the Black Sea port of Odesa. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Mariupol, another port on Ukraine’s...
ATHENS, April 7 — Ukraine’s president urged Europe to take a stronger stand against Russia in a video address to Greece’s parliament today that invoked the battle cry of 19Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Mariupol, another port on Ukraine’s coast where thousands of ethic Greeks live, had been “reduced to ashes” since Russia’s invasion, and called for more humanitarian aid and efforts to evacuate those wounded.
The six-week-old war has forced more than 4 million people to flee Ukraine, destroyed cities and prompted a slew of Western restrictions on Russian elites and the economy. Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine on what he calls a “special military operation” to demilitarise and “denazify” the country. Ukraine and the West say Putin launched an unprovoked war of aggression.
“Freedom or Death,” he said during the address, citing the battle cry of the Greek revolutionary society “Filiki Eteria”, which was founded by merchants in Odesa in 1814 to free Greece from its Ottoman rulers.
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