Our contacts with the American side regarding guarantees are also ongoing – guarantees for the implementation of the arrangements reached recently and announced by the President of the United States. The prisoner exchange – 1,000 for 1,000 – is being prepared and must take place. The Americans assumed responsibility for these guarantees. Ukraine’s Coordination Headquarters has handed over the lists for one thousand POWs to the Russian side.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a phone call with President of Finland Alexander Stubb.

“We will defend our independence and our people’s right to freely choose their path. And in doing so, we will also defend the right of all European peoples to live as they themselves wish. Russia will not succeed in breaking Europe or fracturing it – there have been many attempts, but all have failed. And none will succeed,” the President of Ukraine stressed.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Ukrainian warriors undergoing treatment at one of the medical facilities in Dnipro after being wounded.

At the command post of the 20th Army Corps, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with service members carrying out tasks to liberate the temporarily occupied territory of the Dnipro region.

First Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, Sergiy Kyslytsya, held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Azerbaijan to Ukraine, Seymur Mardaliyev.

“We discussed logistics in detail – all types of logistics – including the supply of our positions, as well as issues such as road repairs across the entire frontline area. The Dnipro region, in particular, needs to do more in this regard; the quality of roads directly affects the speed of evacuation of wounded warriors above all,” the President emphasized.