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Mar 17 4 tweets 4 min read
#BREAKING German MPs give Ukrainian President Zelensky standing ovation before video address to lower house
#BREAKING Ukrainian President Zelensky tells German MPs Russia building new 'Wall' against freedom
#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr #Zelensky called on Germany on Thursday to help destroy a new "Wall" Russia was erecting in Europe, speaking in an emotional video address to the country's Bundestag lower house of parliament u.afp.com/wm5J
#UPDATE Ukraine's president on Thursday said Russia was building a new Cold War wall across Europe "between freedom and bondage", after his government accused invading forces of bombing a theatre sheltering civilians and marked with the word "children" ▶️ u.afp.com/wm5e

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