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.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed a decree enacting a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose sanctions on five Russian cultural figures who justify the aggression and spread Russian propaganda at international events. All of them are linked to the aggressor state’s participation in the 61st Venice Biennale.

The Head of State stressed: it’s important that the country has got through this difficult winter with dignity. According to the President, this required great efforts from all Ukrainians, first and foremost from our warriors.

During the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy presented state awards to representatives of local self-government bodies and military administrations, as well as the honorary distinctions “Hero City of Ukraine”.

We got through this winter thanks to all our people who work for our state, for their communities, thanks to the professionals in energy companies and municipal services. I want to thank you all. Business also performed well – supplies, logistics.

The Head of State thanked them for their resilience throughout this difficult winter and for supporting the front, and expressed special gratitude to the servicemembers for all their efforts in defending Ukraine, in particular our skies, along with critical and civilian infrastructure, from Russian attacks.