Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky made a shock look on the graduation ceremony for Johns Hopkins College’s Class of 2023 on Thursday.
Zelensky, showing through stay stream in his signature khaki-green polo, spoke in regards to the worth of time and recounted a latest journey to the entrance line of his nation’s conflict with Russia, which has been raging since February of 2022.
“Time is probably the most priceless useful resource on the planet. Not oil or uranium, not lithium or anything, however time,” Zelensky advised the graduates. “Your time is underneath your management. The time of our people on the entrance traces, the time of lifetime of all Ukrainians who’re pressured to stay by way of this horrible Russian aggression, sadly is topic to many elements not of their management … Will you find a way to not waste this time of your life?”
He expressed his hope that the graduates would use their time to safeguard democratic values towards tyranny and guarantee their descendants inherit a peaceable world.
“All of our tomorrows, and the tomorrows of our kids and grandchildren, depends upon every of our todays,” he concluded, at which level the gang of about 10,000 college students and households gave him a standing ovation.
Zelensky additionally acquired an honorary diploma from JHU on the ceremony, including to the pile he acquired from greater than 15 establishments throughout final 12 months’s graduation season.
