- However, over these four years, many beautiful words and compliments have been spoken about Ukrainians. But compliments are not enough. We still remember, Volodymyr, your words from the early days of the war when the Americans offered you safe shelter and transport. The fight is here, it needs ammunition, not a ride. Today, you could say – the fight is still here. We still need ammunition, not compliments - stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk during the Ewald-Heinrich-von-Kleist Prize ceremony at the Munich Security Conference.

- I also remember our first meeting just after you won the presidential elections seven years ago, when we were flying by helicopter over Kharkiv. You told me then with full conviction that you wanted to end the conflict with Russia, that you became president to bring peace to Ukraine, and that you and the majority of Ukrainians desired normal relations with all your neighbors. This war was not Ukraine's or Zelensky's choice - he continued.

- Their choice was to defend themselves against an aggressor, to defend an independent state and its citizens, to defend their dreams of a better world, of freedom, human rights, of joining NATO and the European Union. Today, we are grateful to you not only for paying the highest price for your resistance against an enemy that also poses a threat to us. A threat to Poles, Europeans, to the entire Western world. Yes, to the entire Western world. To understand this, one only needs to recall the symbolic image from the front line in Ukraine. The image of North Korean soldiers with Russian commanders and Iranian drones - he emphasized.