Zelensky says Ukraine is ‘reborn’ six months into the war.

In a defiant speech standing before burned and destroyed Russian tanks on a central avenue of the capital, President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated his compatriots on the nation’s Independence Day and for having resisted through six months of war.

In a speech aimed as much at foreign military donors as at his domestic audience, Mr. Zelensky said Ukraine was a nation “reborn” in conflict with a renewed sense of cultural and political identity, now wholly separate from Russia, and one that has united democracies with a new sense of purpose. Read more

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