Today I’d like show you a video that by now is a historical document.
This is on the evening of February 25 2022, from Bankova Street Kyiv (з Банкової /z Bankovoyi/), roughly here, in front of the Office of the President of Ukraine (Офіс Президента України /Ofis Prezydenta Ukrayiny/, abbreviated ОПУ /OPU/ or sometimes just ОП /OP/).
(Note that the subtitles in this video are unusable — whoever uploaded the video activated auto-subtitling from Russian, even if the video is in Ukrainian. I guess the reason for this is that Ukrainian autogenerated subtitles were not available until very recently. A lot of YouTube content in Ukrainian has this problem, so be careful.)
What do we hear?
ми /my/ — we, тут /tut/ — here, and in sentences like this, Ukrainian doesn’t need a verb, so “Ми тут”, literally “we here”, means “We are here.”
Лідер фракції тут. /Lider fraktsiyi tut./ — The faction leader is here: Davyd Arakhamia.
Голова Офісу Президента тут. /Holova Ofisu Prezydenta tut./ —The head of the President's Office is here: Andrii Yermak.
Прем'єр-міністр Шмигаль тут. /Prem'yer-ministr Shmyhalʹ tut./ — Prime Minister Shmyhal is here: Denys Shmyhal.
Подоляк тут. /Podolyak tut./ — Podolyak is here: Mykhailo Podolyak.
Президент тут. /Prezydent tut./ — The President is here.
Всі ми тут. /Vsi my tut./ — We are all here.
Наші військові тут. /Nashi viysʹkovi tut./ — Our military is here.
Громадяни суспільства тут. /Hromadyany suspilʹstva tut./ — Civil society is here.
Всі ми тут. /Vsi my tut./ — We are all here.
All links above go to Wikipedia if you need a refresher who these people are. The full text, which you can read with your favorite machine translation tool, is here.
I did not find any reliable source for the now famous quote “I need ammunition, not a ride”, which Zelenskyy supposedly said when offered to be moved to safety, out of the country, on the day of the Russian full-scale invasion. But this video shows that they all stayed in Kyiv, and the rest is already history.
I left out the stress markings today, just go watch the video.