An emotional video shared on social media shows a veteran interpreter couldn’t hold back tears on Sunday while translating Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s speech for a German news outlet.
In the now-viral clip, the translator starts to choke up while interpreting Zelensky’s speech for the German news service Welt, according to The Hill.
Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people on Sunday after several cities in the country were attacked by Russian forces.
The interpreter translated part of his speech and was heard saying, “Russia is on the path of evil, Russia must lose its voice in the U.N.”
She then starts to struggle as she continues the translation.
“Ukraine, we definitely know..” she says, before pausing briefly, “what we are defending.” As she speaks, her voice begins to break and she tries to calm down. Then, after a breath, she quietly says “sorry” and goes off the air.
“The night was hard,” Zelensky said. “The people rose to defend their state and they showed their true faces. This is terror. “They are going to bomb our Ukrainian cities even more,” the Ukrainian president added. “They are going to kill our children even more insidiously. This is an evil that has come to our land and must be destroyed.”
Watch the clip below:
Veteran interpreter breaks into tears translating Zelensky’s speech after Ukraine survived another night pic.twitter.com/oqLBnLlDim
— Ian Bateson (@ianbateson) February 27, 2022
