On the first day after Easter, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with members of the Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations, extended holiday greetings, and thanked them for their important support for Ukrainian warriors and all Ukrainians during this difficult time.

On the Arms Makers’ Day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated workers of the defense-industrial complex on their professional holiday and awarded them state honors.

The invisible heroes of our defense. Yet we see the results of their work every single day – and evil feels them every single day. These are our Ukrainian arms makers – all employees of Ukraine’s defense industrial complex. In four years, Ukraine has built a new defense industry.

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.