tour, has been to london, has been to paris, and now he will appeal to eu leaders more widely for more help withjets and long range eu leaders more widely for more help with jets and long range weapons to bolster kyiv s defences against the expected spring offensive. almost a year to the day that russia invaded ukraine. let s listen the welcome given to president zelensky in brussels. applause we are here today on this historic occasion to welcome the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelensky, to the european parliament. this is an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary moment, an extraordinary time. it has been almost one year since the brutal, illegal invasion of sovereign ukraine by russia. in all that time, mr president, your leadership has inspired your people, inspired every corner of the globe. when the world thinks of ukraine, they think of heroes, fighting the odds. of david beating goliath, they think of the icons of snake island, the warriors of mariupol, the libera
the government for the decisions that over the course of last year allowed our continent to do what the previous wave of leaders considering possible. europe relieving itself of the ruinous dependence on russian fossil fuels, the ruinous dependence on russian fossilfuels, europe cleansing fossil fuels, europe cleansing itself fossilfuels, europe cleansing itself of the corruption and influence of the russian oligarch business, europe is defending itself from the infiltration of the agents of russia s secret service, who were looking at europe as the hunting field for the opposition opponents of the russian regime. for the first time in its history, the european union is providing the military assistance at such large scale, such skill, and ics such a positive assessment of reforms in a european country that is fighting, defending itself and is modernising and reforming its institutions at the