“I thank the Government officials led by Denys Shmyhal. Thank you very much, Denys, for going through this path and doing so with dignity,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an address to the Ukrainian parliament on July 17.
Today marks the already 1,240th day of the full-scale war.
Ukraine has been standing against Russia in this war for its independence longer than anyone in the world expected. At the same time, from day one, we have maintained full control over our national institutions and all the systems of a truly functioning state. We are supplying the front, which is very important. We are only expanding our domestic Ukrainian weapons production. We are conducting our own defense operations on the enemy’s territory and inflicting tangible pain on Russia for this war. We have already made it through three winters of full-scale war and defended Ukraine from Russia’s ambition to destroy our energy system. We have preserved all the logistics Ukraine needs. We have built and continue to maintain, despite all turbulence, a global coalition in support of our people, in support of Ukraine, and we now have the largest number of friends and partners of Ukraine with the deepest ties in our state’s history, in every part of the world.
Full text of the address: Office of the President of Ukraine
