Ms Lesia Vasylenko:

There is a lot that we, as a group, will take back home from this discussion. We will definitely take back the confidence Ireland has in the victory of Ukraine. We know we will win. We have no other choice. It is the only way forward for Ukraine and for Ukrainians. However, it means a great deal to know that we have a friend who has our back and who is willing to speak up for us, to root for us and to cheer for us. Ireland is that friend. We will take that confidence Ireland has in the victory of Ukraine back to our constituencies and our people.It will help us to fight. It will give us the strength. We will continue to fight; believe me. We have done this for the past 111 days. We have done it for eight years. We have done it for centuries. Today is yet another battle that Ukraine is fighting. It is a battle between right and wrong, autocracy and democracy, empire and freedom. We all know what must win. Right, freedom and democracy must win. We fight, and by "we" I mean all of us here together, for these universal values. Each of us does our bit.

Ukraine is fighting on its land with its own human resources. We are sacrificing a lot. What Ireland and the other freedom-loving countries of this world can do is to give the instruments with which Ukrainians can fight and defeat Russia. Although it may seem that sanctions cost a lot, that weapons are expensive or impossible, all of us are deciding what the world of tomorrow will look like, what legacy we will leave to the generations of the future and what kind of world order our children will live in. That is not expensive. That is an investment we are asking the rest of world to make with us now for the world of the future. What the world of the future really cannot afford, as well as the world of the now, is to live with an aggressive and terrorist Russia in it. To allow for freedom to win and to allow for victory, each of us has our own task. We owe this victory to each other.

Glory to Ireland and glory to Ukraine. Slava Ukraini.