On Border Guard Day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with servicemembers of the State Border Guard Service, congratulated them on their professional holiday, presented state awards, and bestowed upon SBGS units the ribbons of the honorary distinction “For Courage and Valor.”

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children and is attempting to strip them of their national identity, which is why it is crucial to bring them home as quickly as possible, before the occupiers succeed in reshaping their minds. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during his address to participants of the Civil Society and Expert Day.

Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovkva held a meeting with a delegation of the Ukrainian–Austrian interparliamentary group, led by its chair, Henrike Brandstötter.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree enacting a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose sanctions on Belarusian enterprises for assisting Russia in its armed aggression against Ukraine, as well as on individuals close to Belarus’s self-proclaimed president, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Defense against this threat requires all elements: countering Russian military aviation, countering their arms industry, pressuring their component base by restricting supply chains, and, of course, our drones and our missiles.

The first sanctions package targets 20 individuals and four legal entities engaged in transferring Ukrainian children from the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine and indoctrinating them with Russian ideology. The second sanctions list includes 23 vessels used by Russia to export oil and petroleum products.

Starting today, representatives of business and the state can submit claims to the International Register of Damage Caused by Russia’s Aggression Against Ukraine. The five new categories cover damage to or destruction of critical and non-critical infrastructure, as well as damage to, destruction of, or loss of assets.