Via the president of Ukraine’s official website, the following is the text of the speech Volodymyr Zelensky delivered via livestream to the U.S. Congress on March 16, 2022.

Mrs. Speaker, members of Congress, ladies and gentlemen, Americans. Friends. I am proud to greet you from Ukraine, from our capital — Kiev. From a city that is under missile and air strikes by Russian troops. Daily. But it does not give up. And it didn’t even think to give up for a single minute. Just as dozens of other cities and communities in our country, which found themselves in the worst war since World War II.