KYIV, Ukraine — Amid continuing diplomatic efforts to end the long war in Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday marked the country’s Independence Day with a speech in Kyiv’s central square, reminding Ukrainians that they are still fighting for freedom.

He later met with Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, in a show of diplomatic support. President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, also arrived in Kyiv over the weekend for talks with Zelenskyy. Both Carney and Kellogg attended the Independence Day celebrations.

The Ukrainian leader made his speech in the square known as the Maidan, a place of great symbolic importance to Ukrainians and the site of enormous protests in 2013 that culminated in the ouster of the country’s pro

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