“We are especially grateful to our closest friends, and France is one of them. We have excellent relations with your President and your people. From the very beginning of this war, the French people have shown that they are on the right side of history,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

At the start of National Barrier-Free Week, First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska, together with representatives of the government and civil society, opened the art project “Barrier-Free Means Seeing the Person Behind the Words.” It consists of a series of illustrations created by Ukrainian artists.

For us, it has always been very important what societies think – what societies think about what is happening, and whether ordinary people feel, in a broad sense, what we are fighting for; whether they feel what we are fighting for here, in Ukraine, and what would threaten others if Ukraine had not held out.

We are working with all our partners on air defense for Ukraine – clearly, this is the first priority.

On the Day of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with servicemembers of the State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection and presented them with state awards.

First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska took part in a meeting of the National Barrier-Free Council together with Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko, representatives of central executive authorities, regional military administrations, international partners, and the expert community.

“Now, when we are on Ukrainian soil, under our Ukrainian flag, to the sound of our Ukrainian national song, paying tribute to our Ukrainian heroes, we feel in our hearts everything through which Ukrainians have been forced to pass, everything our people have had to endure,” the Head of State said.