The clergy prayed for peace, freedom, and prosperity for Ukraine; blessings for the Ukrainian people; the release of captives; the healing of the wounded; and strength and support for Ukraine’s defenders.

We are building a Ukraine strong and powerful enough to live in security and peace. So that here, on this square, on our Independence Square, beneath our flags, on our land, our children and grandchildren will celebrate Independence Day. In peace. In calm. With confidence in the future.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy enacted the decisions of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine regarding the synchronization and introduction of sanctions and signed the corresponding decrees.

The President reaffirmed his readiness for any format of meeting with the head of Russia. However, Moscow is once again attempting to delay the negotiation process. Ukraine expects that countries of the Global South will send appropriate signals and push Russia toward peace.

Dick Schoof congratulated Volodymyr Zelenskyy and all Ukrainians on National Flag Day. One of the main topics was security guarantees. Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the teams of Ukraine, the United States, and European partners are working on the architecture of future security guarantees.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainians on Ukraine’s National Flag Day and took part in the ceremony of raising the blue-and-yellow flag at the Memorial Complex “National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.”

This flag represents everything dearest to hundreds of thousands of our warriors – men and women from all over Ukraine, who are defending not just one particular direction, not just Vovchansk or Dobropillia, but all our Ukraine, and who are risking their lives to win the right to life for our entire state.