Oksana Markarova: “We are defending freedom in Ukraine. We are not the ones who started this war.”

We will never recognize it. The whole world will never recognize it.

I think May 9 for Russia, you know, it`s a shame day for them, not a Victory Day, because how can they celebrate a Victory over Nazism when they`re doing now exactly what Nazis were doing.

We have to remember that 95 percent of Mariupol is destroyed, that tens of thousand civilians died in Mariupol, were killed by Russians.

By providing the so much needed assistance to us, America is not funding the war. It's actually funding our defense and efforts, which will lead us to peace because its very clear Ukraine was always peaceful.