(ANSA-AFP) - KYIV, NOV 26 - European leaders renewed pledges
of support to Ukraine on Saturday on the 90th anniversary of the
start of the Holodomor famine that affected millions of
Ukrainians under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country will continue to
resist Russian attacks that have systematically targeted
Ukraine's energy grid, causing power cuts as temperatures plunge
with the onset of winter. "Ukrainians went through very terrible
things... Once they wanted to destroy us with hunger, now --
with darkness and cold," Zelensky said in a video posted on
social media. "We cannot be broken," he added. Several European
leaders were in Kyiv on Saturday to commemorate the victims of
the 1932-33 Holodomor -- Ukrainian for "death by starvation" --
which is regarded by Kyiv as a deliberate act of genocide by
Stalin's regime. According to Polish and Lithuanian media, the
prime ministers of these two EU countries were in Ukraine for
talks that could in particular focus on a possible new wave of
migration from Ukraine this winter. (ANSA-AFP).
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