On the contact line, infantry must be provided with the strongest possible conditions. This will also apply to financial support. I have instructed that monthly contract levels for infantry on the contact line be set at 250,000 to 400,000 hryvnias.

A meeting was held at the Office of the President to address the launch of a new project by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development aimed at supporting the next stage of anti-corruption reforms in Ukraine.

On Border Guard Day, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with servicemembers of the State Border Guard Service, congratulated them on their professional holiday, presented state awards, and bestowed upon SBGS units the ribbons of the honorary distinction “For Courage and Valor.”

Russia has abducted thousands of Ukrainian children and is attempting to strip them of their national identity, which is why it is crucial to bring them home as quickly as possible, before the occupiers succeed in reshaping their minds. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this during his address to participants of the Civil Society and Expert Day.

Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Ihor Zhovkva held a meeting with a delegation of the Ukrainian–Austrian interparliamentary group, led by its chair, Henrike Brandstötter.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree enacting a decision of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine to impose sanctions on Belarusian enterprises for assisting Russia in its armed aggression against Ukraine, as well as on individuals close to Belarus’s self-proclaimed president, Aleksandr Lukashenko.

Defense against this threat requires all elements: countering Russian military aviation, countering their arms industry, pressuring their component base by restricting supply chains, and, of course, our drones and our missiles.