Volodymyr Zelensky had warned: it would be an “important” speech. The form of his speech, on March 16, before the United States Congress – a transmission by videoconference – was a first. The bottom of these eighteen minutes confirmed the emergence of an exceptional conductor, as the major crises of history sometimes create. “I am proud to greet you from Ukraine, from our capital, Kyiv, a city that is under missile fire and airstrikes from Russian troops every day but does not give up. Not for a second did we think of giving up, ”he began, in a khaki T-shirt. Next to him is a Ukrainian flag. Members of Congress also wore the colors on brooches distributed to them.
Zelensky expressed himself in vain…
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