Back to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky – who is now taking questions from UK university students. The first comes from the University of Birmingham where the president is asked about the plan to rebuild Ukraine.
Zelensky says it will be a “big project” that will become “unstoppable” once it starts.
“It’s all about rebuilding our country, it’s all about restarting Ukraine,” he says.
“I want the people to return to their native streets, their native cities, but that would be a different Ukraine, a Ukraine that has defended its independence, its future and I want this future to be mentally different.”
He adds: “Of course I want to say that we would be able to reconstruct all our buildings but that would depend not only on our wishes but on the financial support.”
A question comes in from the University of Glasgow. The president is asked what the government’s approach is to the Ukrainian universities in the areas now occupied by Russia.
Zelensky says the situation is a “real tragedy” and he says they are proposing relocating some universities to the existing universities in the territories that are not occupied
