Zelensky and people of Ukraine receive International Four Freedoms Award

Hugo de Jonge, right, and Yvonne van Mastrigt, welcome President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the International Four Freedoms Award ceremony (Peter Dejong/AP)

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was being awarded the prestigious International Four Freedoms Award at a ceremony on Thursday for his and his nation’s courage and resilience in resisting the full-scale invasion launched more than four years ago by Russia.

The award, bestowed by the Roosevelt Foundation, is to honour the Four Freedoms outlined by US President Franklin D Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union address: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.