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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Bundestag in a video call for the first time on Thursday morning before the German parliament opened.

The Ukrainian president told German parliamentarians that "help came too late to stop war" with Russia, which invaded the country on February 24.

Zelenskyy had some harsh words for the German government over its economic interests with Russia. "We could see your willingness to continue to do business with Russia and now we're in the middle of the cold war. And again this is something you have failed to see," Zelensky told the Bundestag.

"You're still protecting yourself behind a wall that does not make it possible for you to see what we are going through," he added.

In Zelensky's emotional address, he also appealed directly to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz saying "Dear Mr. Scholz, tear down this wall."

By using the term "wall", the president made a direct historical reference to a speech by US President Ronald Reagan standing next to the Berlin Wall in 1987.

The former US president famously pleaded with Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," an appeal Zelenskyy was making to Olaf Scholz.

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