Today is a special day. Emotionally and spiritually very powerful. Sunday. Constitution Day of Ukraine. Exactly thirty years ago, an important pillar of our state’s independence was established. It was when Ukrainians stopped living under the old law, and most importantly, someone else’s law, and fully began to build a new life, their own life, based on new foundations and principles, the foremost of which is Ukraine’s right to be itself.

As part of the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Gdańsk, the Olena Zelenska Foundation hosted the workshop “Safe School: Comprehensive Solutions for Ukraine’s Children,” dedicated to creating a safe educational environment amid the full-scale war.

We continue to bring people back from Russian captivity: today, another 160 service members are home. Almost all of them had been in captivity since 2022. Defenders of Mariupol, Azovstal, all of Donetsk region, and other directions, including Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, and Sumy regions. We must bring back everyone – military personnel and civilians – who are still in Russian captivity.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy held a phone call with President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed decrees enacting decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to extend sanctions against entities supporting Russia’s military-industrial complex and impose sanctions on collaborationists who have betrayed Ukraine.

“It is clear to everyone that it is Russia that is prolonging the war and ignoring all of Ukraine’s diplomatic proposals. That is why we must work as actively as possible to strengthen our country and our people,” the Head of State noted.

To support children during the war, Ukraine is expanding mental health services and implementing every possible program in this area. First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska spoke about this in an interview with the British outlet The Sun.