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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, UKRAINE 🇺🇦 34 years ago, we chose us. All of us - East and West, Lviv and Kharkiv, Crimea and Donbas. We chose each other. Not division. We chose unity, identity, and the promise of a shared future. Today marks our fourth Independence Day in the midst of full-scale war, and I celebrate it as a Ukrainian whose freedom was defended, not gifted. To our defenders: this day exists because of you. Your courage is eternal, and so is our gratitude. To everyone abroad who continues to stand with Ukraine from world leaders to ordinary people who carve out time in their busy lives to stay by our side - thank you. Together we are unstoppable. Together we will achieve peace.