Olena Zelenska was this Thursday, September 15 the guest of
France Inter
for an interview of about twenty minutes.
Present in Paris as part of the support conference for Ukraine aimed at financing the reconstruction of the country, the Ukrainian first lady, wife of Volodymyr Zelensky, affirmed her relief regarding the results of this event, with more than one billion euros in donations obtained from partner states: "
we are very happy to see such a broad spectrum of participants
".
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"
We will be able to restore our energy capacities
" with the money from the donations, continued the Ukrainian first lady.
However, “
we need more and more weapons,
” she recalled during the interview.
"Humiliation"
"
The feeling of humiliation is sometimes the driving force behind our resistance
," she said, referring to the daily life of Ukrainians: sometimes without electricity, without internet, without heating, while Kiev has today fallen below the bar of - 5°C.
“
Imagine a person living in a European megalopolis,
” she says, listing the comforts Ukrainians enjoyed before the war.
Today, “
people have to hide in the subways and in the cellars, cannot plan their day
”.
"
Getting out of this normality is already in itself a humiliation
".
"
They sometimes bury their dead in the courtyards of buildings, the park where they used to walk with their children and which was their place of rest and leisure has turned into a cemetery
", she testifies. Again.
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“War for European values”
Ukraine is afraid that international support is fading, that this fight of more than ten months is tiring, she was moved.
“
This war is not just our war, but it is a war for European values, for human values
,” she said.
For the first Ukrainian lady, the message is clear, each Ukrainian victory must be understood as a “
common victory
”.
Faced with the voices that are being heard and insisting on the importance of not humiliating Putin, Olena Zelenska replies: “
How can we anger more the one who shows the highest level of aggression?
".
She then compared the power of " massive and structured
" Russian propaganda
to a "
spider's web that has covered the world
".
Celebrate Christmas
Regarding the Christmas holidays, the first lady does not yet have a precise answer: “
the big battle today is whether we are going to install the trees, there are bitter discussions on the subject
”.
Some want to install them as “
symbols of resistance
”, others want to conserve electricity which is scarce due to the absence of generators.
“
At midnight on December 31, we will all make the same wish
,” she finally added, referring to peace.
"
I believe in synergy and I believe that if everyone wants the same thing, it will happen
."
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