Eight years after his predecessor Petro Porochenko, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, spoke, directly, to the Canadian Parliament to request the establishment of an aerial exclusion zone in the Ukrainian sky .
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After being expressed in front of the British House of Commons on March 8, and a few hours before addressing the US Congress, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, was invited, Tuesday, March 15, to a Exceptional session of the Canadian Parliament. In the twentieth day of the triggering of the war, in videoconferencing since kyiv, the Ukrainian leader, all of green Khaki dressed, delivered a speech of a dozen minutes full of emotion, to tell the members of Parliament and Senators Canadian the reality of the war.
“I would like you to feel what we feel”, he launched them. “Since the beginning of this war, 97 children died” and “every night is a nightmare,” he said, describing the bombings on hospitals and daycares, the explosions at four o’clock in the residential neighborhoods Cities, fires in nuclear power plants, water and electricity cuts, hunger that now affects the inhabitants of Maroupol.
“Imagine the questions of your children who are wondering what’s going on”, “Imagine”, repeated Volodyymyr Zelensky repeatedly, multiplying parallels with Canadian cities:
“Imagine Vancouver besieged (…) Imagine the Montreal bombed airport (…) Imagine the Toronto CN Tower struck by Russian bombs, that’s our reality.”
So many images to support his request to see devoting an aerial exclusion zone into the Ukrainian sky: “You provide us with military aid, humanitarian, you have put in place severe sanctions but we see that Unfortunately, it does not end the war (…); how many attacks will it take before taking these measurements? “
And add: “We do not ask much. We ask for real support, which will help us win.”
acclaimed for long minutes
Canadian parliamentarians, a yellow and blue ribbon at the buttonhole as support, ran, standing for long minutes of its intervention, some deputies launching vigorous “Slava Ukraini!” (“Glory to Ukraine “).
A few minutes ago, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had opened this exceptional session by welcoming Volodyymr Zelensky, the qualifying “courageous and exceptional leader”. “Your courage, and the courage of your people, all inspire us. You defend the right of Ukrainians to choose their own future. And so doing, you defend the values of the pillars of all free and democratic countries”, He launched, but not mention the request for aerial exclusion. Last week, in the interview on the Anglophone public channel CTV, like its partners at the Atlantic Alliance, he had excluded in advance to respond favorably to the Ukrainian request: “It was heartbreaking, had he dropped, We can not do that because the risk of climbing is too high if we send NATO aircraft in the sky of Ukraine to slaughter Russian planes. “
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