Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated that the longer Ukrainians are held captive by Russia, the more difficult it will be for them to return to regular life. We must do all feasible and impossible to see that this element of our Peace Formula, the return of all prisoners and deportees, is carried out.
I want to thank all of our officials and institutions who are working to facilitate the repatriation of Ukrainians. I am grateful to all international mediators, relevant states, and their leaders.
It is vital to remember and find everyone. Military soldiers and civilians. Deported children. Crimean political prisoners. Deported families. Everyone must be discovered and returned.
In today’s speech to the International Platform for the Release of Civilians Illegally Detained by Russia, I emphasised the need to bring Russia, each of its war criminals, and all those engaged in our people’s expulsion and prisoner maltreatment to justice.
He went on to say that everything Ukraine and its allies are doing right now to protect against Russian aggression will boost our countries’ security for decades to come.
Every Russian loss and defeat teaches Russia, and any other opponent of Europe and the free world, that aggression does not and cannot be rewarded. Cooperation and resoluteness are two solutions that we must all provide to the subject of how to end the war and find peace.
