“I know that for almost an hour you have been waiting for us to celebrate the New Year together.

As one family, as one people, as one country.

Donbass and Crimea, set the clock back, be with us, ”Zelensky said.

According to him, Lugansk, Donetsk and Crimea now, in all senses, "live in a different time."

He also added that he would like to say in Donetsk that peace has come to Ukraine.

Earlier it became known that the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky will celebrate the New Year at the state residence in the village of Guta in the Ivano-Frankivsk region.