Ukraine, meanwhile, was ready to do "everything" it could to secure peace, Mr Zelenskyy said in a video address that featured images of Ukrainians carrying out acts of resistance against Russian soldiers in the opening days of the conflict. In an address to the EU parliament, speaking alongside visiting EU chiefs Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, Mr Zelenskyy urged Brussels to accelerate Kyiv's admission to the bloc, or face "decades" of Russian attempts to disrupt the process. In the suburb of Irpin — where the bodies of hundreds of civilians were discovered in 2022 after it and the neighbouring suburb of Bucha were occupied by Russian forces — locals told the news agency AFP that the war had completely changed their lives, and the country.
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