Foreign ministers 'sing' Ukraine's national anthem on Twitter
Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine's Minister of Foreign Affairs, launched a flash mob on Twitter for Independence Day in which his counterparts from other countries took turns tweeting lines from the national anthem of Ukraine. Source: European Pravda Details: Kuleba himself started the flash mob with the first line of the Ukrainian national anthem: "Ukraine's freedom has not yet perished, nor freedom, nor glory".
It was continued by Iceland's Foreign Minister THordis Kolbrun R. Gylfadottir: "Upon us, fellow Ukrainians, fate shall smile once more".
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Advertisement: -- Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) August 24, 2023Then Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna took up the song: "Our enemies will vanish, like dew in the sun". Dutch Foreign Minister Wopke Hoekstra tweeted: "And we too shall rule, brothers, in a free land of our own".
He was followed by Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis: "We'll lay down our souls and bodies to attain our freedom". Next came Tobias Billstrom, the head of Swedish diplomacy: "And we'll show that you, brothers, are of Cossack descent". (Bielstrom was the only one who changed the words of the anthem so as not to speak on his own behalf.) North Macedonian Foreign Minister Bujar Osmani tweeted: "Brothers, stand together in a bloody fight, from the Sian to the Don", followed by UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly: "We will not allow others to rule in our native land".
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They were joined by the French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who "sang" together: "The Black Sea will smile and Grandfather Dnipro will rejoice/ For in our Ukraine, fortune shall flourish again!" Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani continued: "Our persistence and our sincere toils will be rewarded"; then EU diplomacy president Josep Borrel: "And freedom's song will resound throughout all of Ukraine", and Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly: "Echoing off the Carpathians and rumbling across the steppes". And US Secretary of State Antony Blinken concluded: "Ukraine's fame and glory will be known among all nations".
Gitanas Nauseda, President of Lithuania, and Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, President of Portugal, congratulated Ukraine on Independence Day on Sophia Square in Kyiv, delivering speeches in Ukrainian.
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