Now our people will be celebrated by our people with words of gratitude, a sense of gratitude, tears of gratitude - the appeal of the President of Ukraine
I thank the parents of our warriors who raised truly winners. That's how the winners. I thank all the doctors and nurses who save the wounded heroes. Thank you to everyone who strengthens the defense and provides Ukrainian soldiers with everything they need. When the Armed Forces Day in the state is a feast of gratitude, such a state, I am sure that it is impossible to overcome and it is impossible to break. And today we all see it and saw again.
Dear present! For eight years and for 286 days, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been defending our beautiful state from the occupier, from Russian aggression. Thousands of Ukrainians gave their lives to come that day when no occupier will remain on our land and when all our people will be free again.
I ask you now to pay a moment of silence to the memory of everyone, the memory of everyone who died in the battlefields for our country, for the sake of Ukraine, and whose life has become part of the heroic history of Ukraine's courage. Dear Ukrainians! Today, it is an honor for me to spend the whole day with our defenders and defenders. In the morning, I was in Donetsk - I thanked the soldiers who defend our country in the most dangerous and responsible directions.
Those who fight in Swativ, Bakhmut, Avdiivsky and other areas in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. He handed over state awards and honors to the soldiers. I was in Kharkiv today - I thanked the doctors who save our unbreakable fighters. In Kharkiv region, I presented the awards to the soldiers who participated in the liberation of the region and who continue to expel the occupiers from Ukraine. Today we managed to return home for 60 more soldiers who were in Russian captivity.
We will continue to return ours and release everyone. Now here, in the Mariinsky Palace, our heroes, our soldiers, commanders and representatives of combat brigades and units who have just arrived from the front and return to the front again. Where it's really hot. Where they really fight for our freedom, for our independence, for our children.
And I want to tell everyone present exactly what is in my heart, I am sure, every Ukrainian: I thank you! I thank all the soldiers, all the sailors, all sergeants, elders, all officers, all heroes, generals and necessarily - all dads and all your moms, our dear, respected Ukrainian soldiers. I wish you all one - victory! All of us. You deserve! All our people deserve. All our parents, our children deserve. Our state and history deserve. Finally win.