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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