The conditions for a new bailout deal and reforms proposed by Greece’s creditors were an ultimatum and an insult, Tsipras said.

“We exhausted every limit of concessions so there could be an agreement,” Tsipras said. “Perhaps some saw that as a weakness.”

“The day of truth is coming for the creditors, the time when they will see that Greece will not surrender, that Greece is not a game that has ended,” he said, concluding his address by calling on all Greeks to reject the “ultimatum” with a “resounding NO.”

‘Our dignity is no game’: Greece not ‘visitor’, does not need EU permission for referendum – PM