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At St. Sophia of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and First Lady Olena Zelenska met with children from Kyiv and the Kyiv region whose parents gave their lives for our country.

“God is in the midst of the city; it shall not be moved.” These words are inscribed here, above our Oranta, in our great Saint Sophia. And these words are endowed with extraordinary strength – a strength we have felt for more than fifteen hundred days of the battle for life, in which our Ukraine, our capital, our people, and our faith remain unshaken.

I am grateful to everyone working for the exchanges: our entire Coordination Headquarters team and intelligence services, the Security Service of Ukraine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, of course, the army, and most of all, every Ukrainian unit on the front line that ensures the replenishment of the exchange fund for Ukraine. Your courage, warriors, is the guarantee that we will be able to bring our people home.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Budanov and his Deputy Iryna Vereshchuk met with Ukrainians undergoing training at the Zakarpattia Regional Center for Preparing the Population for National Resistance.

The Head of State stressed: it’s important that the country has got through this difficult winter with dignity. According to the President, this required great efforts from all Ukrainians, first and foremost from our warriors.

During the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented state awards to representatives of local self-government bodies and military administrations, as well as the honorary distinctions “Hero City of Ukraine”.

We got through this winter thanks to all our people who work for our state, for their communities, thanks to the professionals in energy companies and municipal services. I want to thank you all. Business also performed well – supplies, logistics.

The Head of State thanked them for their resilience throughout this difficult winter and for supporting the front, and expressed special gratitude to the servicemembers for all their efforts in defending Ukraine, in particular our skies, along with critical and civilian infrastructure, from Russian attacks.

Today, the United States has turned to diplomacy in the situation around Iran, and the world supports this. A ceasefire always creates more space for diplomacy and should precede a genuine end to the war. Ukraine has always approached this war – Russia’s war against Ukraine – from the same position.