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The Government should pay greater attention to the problems of the regions of Ukraine, in particular the mining towns, as stated by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his speech at the All-Ukrainian Meeting of Coal Industry Workers of Ukraine.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set a task to carry out full financial and personnel audit of state-owned coal enterprises shortly and to set up a coordination center for the transformation of the coal industry.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy stresses the need to create a National Coal Regions Fair Transformation Program, which will envisage re-training and new jobs for miners, address the issue of access to education for the children of miners, and set up services in mining towns.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that one of the urgent problems of the coal industry was the wage arrears of the miners of the state mines, which should be paid in the coming months.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy congratulated Ukrainians who were evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan and are currently under observation at Novi Sanzhary Medical Center in the Poltava region on the return to their homeland. The Head of State expressed hope that soon all of them will be able to go to their families.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy participated in the award ceremony of the first grant contest of the Ukrainian Startup Fund.

Ukraine needs to develop and implement progressive ideas and new technologies in order to be successful and competitive in today's world, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said during the award ceremony of the Ukrainian Startup Fund grant contest.

On the sixth anniversary of the murder of the Heavenly Hundred, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with the relatives of those who were killed during the tragic events of February 20, 2014 in Kyiv. The Head of State thanked the attendees for the opportunity to communicate. He assured that the investigation of Maidan cases is in process and the perpetrators will be punished.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy together with his wife Olena took part in the ceremony of commemoration of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has set a task to ensure the functioning of more than 200 emergency rooms in the country by the end of the year.