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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomes the release of Vitaliy Markiv, a National Guard who was unjustly sentenced to 24 years in prison in Italy for the journalist's death. The President personally negotiated the release of Vitaliy Markiv with the leaders of Italy and requested to facilitate the retrial for a fair decision.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a telephone conversation with President of the Venice Commission Gianni Buquicchio. The Head of State thanked for the fruitful cooperation. In particular, the Venice Commission provided more than 150 conclusions and expert assessments on draft laws and laws of Ukraine on the judiciary, the Anticorruption Court, etc.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with President of the International Committee of the Red Cross Peter Maurer. This happened a hundred days after the ceasefire agreements, which had a positive effect on the security situation in Donbas.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy expects the renewed composition of the Commission on Legal Reform to work out proposals on judicial reform in the near future. The President stated this on ICTV’s Freedom of Speech on Monday.

The election of the new composition of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine must take place on a competitive basis, transparently and openly. This was emphasized by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on ICTV’s Freedom of Speech.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the National Security and Defense Council's immediate reaction to the Constitutional Court's decision to abolish anticorruption infrastructure and the draft law on resetting the CCU submitted to the parliament deterred judges from making even more destructive decisions.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy took part in a meeting of the Servant of the People faction in the Verkhovna Rada and discussed the need to reset the Constitutional Court with people's deputies.

Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak met with the ambassadors of the G7 countries. The main topic of the meeting was the recent events related to the decision of the judges of the Constitutional Court, which caused a great resonance in society.

The Ukrainian party in the TCG initiated an urgent meeting of the working group on security issues. This was announced by Oleksiy Arestovych, Adviser on Information Policy of the Ukrainian Delegation to the Trilateral Contact Group.

An extraordinary urgent meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers was held with the participation of President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at which an order was adopted that will allow unblocking the activities of the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP). An urgent meeting of the government was held in the Office of the Head of State to implement the decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.