 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told Ukrainians on December 6 that Kiev would defeat Russia and win a fair peace against all the odds, as the future of vital military and financial aid from Washington appeared to be hanging by a thread Zelenskyy delivered the defiant message in an unusual, early morning video in which he was shown walking through the streets of Kiev on his way to pay his respects to soldiers, killed fighting, as Ukraine marks the day of its armed forces.in his video on Wednesday. Zelenskyy greeted people as he walked down the slippery winter streets of Kiev city center at around 0700 in the morning dot he said that Ukraine had no alternative except to liberate its territories occupied by Russia. He was later shown paying his respects at a wall of remembrance created in 2014 to commemorate victims of Russia's war against Ukraine. Moscow seized the peninsula of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and backed a militant insurgency in the east. While the original panels were neatly structured with orderly military pictures, that changed after the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022. Breathing families placed hundreds of personal photos there.