English subtitles for clip: File:Volodomyr Zelensky's speech on the Russian massacre of Bucha, c. April 2022.ogg

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Today this address
will be without greetings.

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I do not want any extra words.

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Presidents do not usually record
addresses like this.

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But today I have to say just that.

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After what was revealed
in Bucha and our other cities

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the occupiers were expelled from.

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Hundreds of people were killed.

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Tortured, executed civilians.

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Corpses on the streets. Mined area.

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Even the bodies of the dead were mined.

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The pervasive consequences of looting.

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Concentrated evil has come to our land.

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Murderers. Torturers. Rapists. Looters.

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Who call themselves the army.

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And who deserve only death
after what they did.

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(in Russian) I want every mother
of every Russian soldier

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to see the bodies of the killed people
in Bucha, in Irpin, in Hostomel.

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What did they do?

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Why were they killed?

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What did the man who was riding
his bicycle down the street do?

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Why were ordinary civilians in an ordinary
peaceful city tortured to death?

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Why were women strangled after their
earrings were ripped out of their ears?

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How could women be raped
and killed in front of children?

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How could their corpses
be desecrated even after death?

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Why did they crush
the bodies of people with tanks?

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What did the Ukrainian city
of Bucha do to your Russia?

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How did all this become possible?

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Russian mothers!
Even if you raised looters,

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how did they also become butchers?

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You couldn't be unaware
of what's inside your children.

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You couldn't overlook that they are
deprived of everything human.

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No soul. No heart.

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They killed deliberately
and with pleasure.

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I want all the leaders
of the Russian Federation

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to see how their orders
are being fulfilled.

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Such orders. Such a fulfillment.

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And joint responsibility.

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For these murders, for these tortures,

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for these arms torn off by explosions
that lie on the streets.

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For shots in the back
of the head of tied people.

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This is how the Russian state
will now be perceived.

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This is your image.

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Your culture and human appearance

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perished together with the Ukrainian men
and women to whom you came.

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(in Ukrainian) I approved a decision

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to create a special mechanism
of justice in Ukraine

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for the investigation
and judicial examination

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of every crime of the occupiers 
in the territory of our state.

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The essence of this mechanism

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is the joint work of national
and international experts:

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investigators, prosecutors and judges.

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This mechanism will help
Ukraine and the world

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bring to concrete justice those

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who unleashed or in any way participated

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in this terrible war
against the Ukrainian people

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and in crimes against our people.

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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
the Office of the Prosecutor General,

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the National Police, the Security Service,

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the Intelligence Service
and other structures

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within their competence
must make every effort to ensure

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that the mechanism
is operational immediately.

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I call on all our citizens
and friends of Ukraine in the world

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who can join this work

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and help establish justice to do so.

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The world has already seen
many war crimes.

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At different times.
On different continents.

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But it is time to do everything possible

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to make the war crimes
of the Russian military

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the last manifestation
of such evil on earth.

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Everyone guilty of such crimes will be
included in a special Book of Torturers,

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will be found and punished.

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Ukrainians!

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I want you to realize that.

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We drove the enemy out of several regions.

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But Russian troops still control

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the occupied areas of other regions.

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And after the expulsion of the occupiers,
even worse things can be found there.

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Even more deaths and tortures.

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Because this is the nature of the Russian
military who came to our land.

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These are bastards who can't do otherwise.

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And they had such orders.

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All partners of Ukraine
will be informed in detail

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about what happened in the temporarily
occupied territory of our state.

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War crimes in Bucha and other cities
during the Russian occupation

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will also be considered
by the UN Security Council on Tuesday.

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There will definitely be a new package
of sanctions against Russia.

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But I'm sure that's not enough.
More conclusions are needed.

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Not only about Russia,
but also about the political behavior

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that actually allowed
this evil to come to our land.

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Today is the fourteenth anniversary
of the NATO summit in Bucharest.

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Then there was a chance to take Ukraine
out of the "gray zone" in Eastern Europe.

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Out of the "gray zone"
between NATO and Russia.

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Out of the gray zone, in which Moscow
thinks they are allowed everything.

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Even the most dreadful war crimes.

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Under optimistic diplomatic statements

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that Ukraine could become
a member of NATO,

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then, in 2008, refusal to accept Ukraine
into the Alliance was hidden.

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The absurd fear of some politicians
towards Russia was hidden.

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They thought that by refusing Ukraine,
they would be able to appease Russia,

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to convince it to respect Ukraine
and live normally next to us.

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During the 14 years
since that miscalculation,

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Ukraine has experienced a revolution
and eight years of war in Donbas.

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And now we are fighting for life
in the most horrific war in Europe

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since World War II.

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I invite Mrs. Merkel and Mr. Sarkozy
to visit Bucha and see

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what the policy of concessions
to Russia has led to in 14 years.

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To see with their own eyes
the tortured Ukrainian men and women.

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I want to be understood correctly.

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We do not blame the West.

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We do not blame anyone

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but the specific Russian military
who did this against our people.

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And those who gave them orders.

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But we have the right
to talk about indecision.

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About the path to such Bucha,
to such Hostomel,

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to such Kharkiv, to such Mariupol.

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We have no indecision.

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No matter whether we are
in a certain bloc or non-aligned,

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we understand one thing:
we must be strong.

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Fourteen years ago, Russia's leader
in Bucharest told Western leaders

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that there was no country like Ukraine.

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And we prove that there is
such a country. It was and it will be.

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We will not hide
behind the strong of this world.

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We will not beg anyone.

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Honestly, we shouldn’t have asked
for help with weapons

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to protect ourselves from this evil
that came to our land.

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All the necessary weapons
should have been given to us anyway -

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without requests.

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Because they themselves realized

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what evil had come
and what it had brought with it.

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We see what’s at stake in this war.
We see what we are defending.

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There are standards of the Ukrainian
army - moral and professional.

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And it is not our army
that has to adjust now.

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These are many other armies
that should learn from our military.

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And there are standards
of the Ukrainian people.

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And there are standards
of the Russian occupiers.

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This is good and evil.

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This is Europe and a black hole that
wants to tear it all apart and absorb.

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We will win this war.

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Even if individual politicians are still
unable to overcome the indecision

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they will pass on to their successors
together with their offices.

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And all the necessary services
are already working in Bucha

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to bring the city back to life.

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Restore electricity supply, water supply.

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Restore the work of medical institutions.

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Rebuild the infrastructure.
Give security to people.

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Because Russia was expelled.

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And Ukraine is returning.
And brings life back.

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Today I visited
our border guards, our heroes

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in the hospital of the Border Guard
Service of Ukraine, wounded warriors.

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I presented state awards
to the eight of them.

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I also awarded
the orthopedist-traumatologist -

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medical service officer who is a leading
military traumatologist in Ukraine

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and has already saved
many Ukrainian defenders.

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In total, 41 border guards received 
state awards under this decree.

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It was the servicemen
of the State Border Guard Service

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who first met the occupiers with fire when
they went on the offensive on February 24.

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Now our boys and girls
are returning to the state border

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as we expel the occupiers.

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I am sure the time will come

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and the whole line of the state border
of Ukraine will be restored.

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And for this to happen sooner,

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we must all be focused,
ready to boldly face evil

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and respond to every
criminal act against Ukraine,

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against our people, against our freedom.

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Evil will be punished.

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Glory to Ukraine!