President Zelenskyy’s address to Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025

“We are already preparing for the next winter. And we’ve already gone through three winters during this full-scale war,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in an address to the participants of the Ukraine Recovery Conference 2025 on July 10.

Thank you all for your attention to Ukraine, to the needs of our people, first of all, and to our shared responsibility to do everything necessary to protect life.

Russia has also “prepared” for this meeting. Just last night, they launched another massive attack on Ukraine – mainly targeting our capital, Kyiv. The attack involved Russian-Iranian Shahed drones. These drones have been heavily upgraded to cause more destruction and to be harder to shoot down. Ukrainians now face attacks by hundreds, hundreds of these drones every single night. And this is pure terrorism.

The night before last, they launched over 700 drones and missiles. Last night – nearly 400. And they try to do this as often as possible. This is exactly what Putin wants – for our people to suffer, to flee Ukraine, and for homes, schools, for life itself – to be destroyed everywhere, not just near the front lines.

Remember – just a year ago, many people thought Russia wanted real peace, real talks and a ceasefire. Moscow was sending those signals, and it was all part of their propaganda – trying to say that Ukraine didn’t want peace. But we said back then – there must be pressure on Russia because it was not preparing for peace. And now everyone sees that Putin has rejected every peace proposal and is escalating the violence.

Full text of the address: Office of the President of Ukraine