Sanctions must be ramped up significantly. We must greatly enhance our cooperation – especially in the technological sphere – among all those around the world who are defending life. This is exactly what we agreed on with partners recently in Canada – at the G7 Summit. And we will continue discussing it next week through other formats of our cooperation in Europe, particularly within the framework of the Coalition of the Willing. 

The President expressed his gratitude for the $50 billion loan provided this year under the G7’s Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration for Ukraine (ERA) initiative. Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Christine Lagarde also discussed the use of frozen Russian assets to meet Ukraine’s needs.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the memory of those killed at the site of the Russian attack on a residential building in the Solomianskyi district of Kyiv.

Advisor to the Head of the Office of the President and Chief Operating Officer of the Bring Kids Back UA initiative, Dariia Zarivna, held a meeting with the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Lithuania to Ukraine, Inga Stanytė-Toločkienė.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ajay Banga discussed further World Bank support in assessing the damage inflicted on Ukraine and in reintegrating Ukrainian warriors. Special attention was paid to the development and effective management of Ukraine’s energy sector, as well as reconstruction projects.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Prime Minister of Japan Shigeru Ishiba.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte to coordinate steps ahead of next week’s NATO Summit in The Hague.