Zelensci: ‘W wl win’
(Transcription of a news item published in the Guardian on 26 February 2022)
Ycren’z prezidnt, Volodimir Zelensci, hz bn gvñ a pres brīfñ ɖs mornñ n sd hiz cuntri wl trîumf ovr Ruśn forsz.
10.55 a.m., 26 Febrri 2022
H sd guvnmntforsz stl cntrold Cyiv n “ci pônts arnd ɖ siti”. H sd Ycreńn forsz wd win, n criṭsîzd disinḟmeśn.
In ɖ fînl sx́n v hiz spīć, h sd: “Plīz stop ɖoz hu r layñ, or trayñ t lî t y, or layñ t s. W nīd t stop ɖs wor. W cn liv in pīs tgɖr, gloḅli, az hymnz.
“Ǎr militri, ǎr naśnl gard, ǎr naśnl p’līs, ǎr teritri dfns, speśl srvis, naṣ́nlz v Ycren, plīz cari on. W wl win. Glori t Ycren!”
Zelensci sd: “W r s’xesḟli holdñ bac ɖ eṇmi’z atacs. W nǒ w r dfndñ ǎr land n ɖ fyćr v ǎr ćildṛn. Cyiv n ɖ ci eriaz r cntrold bî ǎr armi.
“Ɖ okpayrz wontd t set p ɖer pupit in ǎr capitl. Ɖe dd’nt s’xid. On ǎr strīts, ɖr wz a propr fît gwñ on.
Ɖ eṇmi wz yzñ ol its wepnz, artiḷri, paṛtrups, ol its wepnz. Ɖe r hitñ reẓdnśl eriaz, ɖe r trayñ t dstrô eṇji infṛstrucćr, n evriwn śd hlp s t stop ɖs okpeśn.”
H sd ɖt aftr dscuśnz wɖ YY līdrz in rīsnt dez, includñ ovr śutñ Ruśa ǎt v ɖ Swift pemntșistm, h b’livd Ycren śd bcm part v ɖ YY n its sitiznz śd hv ɖ sem rîts.
“Ycreńn ppl dzrv t bcm membrz v ɖ YY. N ɖs wd b a signl v yr s’port t Ycren. Ɖs dscuśn śd b clozd.
“W dscust ɖs tde wɖ ɖ Yṛpiyn līdrz. Ol ɖ iqipmnt n dfns militri hlp z cmñ t Ycren n wrc z gwñ on t disc̣nct Ruśa fṛm Swift. I hop ɖt Hunġri wl b forst t s’port ɖs dsiźn.”
H asct fr ppl hu cd cm bac t Ycren t fît t d so: “In evri aur n ples, siti, n tǎn n prsn … evriẃr ẃr ɖ eṇmi z cilñ ǎr ppl, ǎr armd forsz r dwñ evriʈñ ɖe cn t dstrô ɖ eṇmi.
“Ɖoz sitiz n tǎnz ɖt r biyñ atact fṛm ɖ er r holdñ p, wel dn. F y cn dstrô ɖ okpayrz, plīz d. Evriwn hu cn cm bac t Ycren, plīz d, plīz cm bac.
“W wl hv a lot v wrc t d t rībild ǎr Ycren. Evriwn hu cn dfnd it abrōd, d it d’recli in a ynîtd we. Evri frend v Ycren hu wonts t jôn Ycren in dfndñ ɖ cuntri plīz cm ovr, w wl gv y wepnz. It wl b anǎnst vri śortli, hǎ ɖs cn b dn. Evriwn hu z dfndñ Ycren z a hiro.”
H iśùd anɖr pli t Ruśn ppl t hlp stop ɖ wor bî ptñ preśr on Vlajīmir Pūćin n hiz guvnmnt. Anti-wor pṛtstrz hv bn arestd in rīsnt dez in Mosco n St Pīṭzbrg.
“I wont evriwn in Ruśa t hír m. Evrbdi. Hundṛdz v capćrd soljrz hu r hir in Ycren d’nt nǒ ẃ ɖe wr snt hir t cil ppl or b cild. Ppl nīd t tel ɖ guvnmnt ẃ ɖ wor hz t b stopt, mor ppl fṛm yr cuntri wl ste alîv.
“Yr naṣ́nlz r vôsñ ɖer opziśn t ɖs wor. W nǒ mni ppl in Ruśa r śoct nǎ bî ɖ brūtaḷti v ɖ Ruśn guvnmnt, ɖs z ɖ rît riax́n, I am gretfl fr ɖs riax́n.”
