The European Union would be “stronger” with Ukraine as a member, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday in an address to the European Parliament.

Zelenskyy’s comments came a day after he signed an official application for Ukraine to join the E.U.

Ukrainians, Zelesnkyy said, “are just fighting for our land and for our freedom,” he said. “No one will break us. We are strong. We are Ukrainians.”p, 2dm45
 
But as Ukraine fights “for survival,” he said the country is also “fighting to be equal members67 of Europe.”