Economically, because of sanctions that will be slammed on Russia immediately. Militarily, because we are not the country that will give up. This is our land, we will be defending it, you see, [Russia] tried to suffocate us, destabilize us, and shatter us from the inside for the last 300 years. But they failed. I'm still sitting here with you, a foreign minister of independent Ukraine. We know the threat, we understand it, we learned how to live with it, and we stand for a just cause.

Dmytro Kuleba

Dmytro Ivanovich Kuleba (Ukrainian: ?????? ???????? ??????; born on April 19, 1981 in Sumy) is a Ukrainian statesman, diplomat and communications specialist, currently serving in the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. He is also concurrently a member of the National Defense and Security Council of Ukraine. He is one of the youngest top-diplomats in Ukraine's history. He previously worked as Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration as well as Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the Council of Europe between 2016 and 2019.

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