Today, Ukraine celebrates Children's Day — and we don't need to be reminded who poses the greatest threat to our children.
Just yesterday, someone in Russia decided to launch a missile at a residential building in Ternopil, someone else organized the execution of the order, and someone else pressed the button. These countless “someones” took the lives of three Ukrainian children with a single strike.
The Russians want to destroy us, and what could be more effective in this endeavor than destroying our children?
Some they kill physically. Others they poison with information. And they steal childhood from children — those short years that should be bright and carefree.
I am grateful to all Ukrainian soldiers who are holding the front line so that Ukrainian children can live in a free Ukraine. We are also doing everything possible to protect our future generations — both from the challenges of war and from the “ordinary” problems that can arise even in peacetime.
Children deserve a childhood. Children deserve our protection.