Our country expects that the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the European Union during the first half of next year will be historic in terms of opening negotiating clusters for Ukraine and adopting other necessary decisions.

I want to thank Cyprus for its support at the political level, including with regard to the negotiations on Ukraine’s EU membership.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy and President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides honored the memory of fallen Ukrainian defenders.

On the occasion of the Day of Missile and Artillery Forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with servicemembers, congratulated them on their professional holiday, and presented them with state awards – the Orders of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, I–III class, and the Orders “For Courage,” II and III class.

Everything is now proceeding quite effectively – at meetings in Geneva and Florida, Ukraine was heard, and Ukraine was listened to. And that matters. We expect it will continue exactly this way.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the athletes of Ukraine’s National Deaflympics Team, who won 100 medals – the highest medal count among all teams – at the 25th Summer Deaflympics in Tokyo, and presented them with state awards.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy heard a report from Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Rustem Umerov on preparations for the meetings with the national security advisors to European leaders, which will take place today, December 3, in Brussels.