Ukraine's macro -financial support and strengthening EU sanctions against Russia are also a weapon in the protection
We continue to protect our common values together, and therefore we gain tangible victories together. For six months, we returned to Ukraine and the whole of Europe the territory of Kharkiv region, returned the city of Kherson and part of Kherson region, which were occupied by Russia at the beginning of the invasion. This liberation has shown the world that our protection is not something so accidental, but our inalienable force, which is not stopped.
And I thank for large -scale and diverse assistance to Ukraine, which enables our people, our cities, our villages to return freedom to our people. Nothing else proves Europe's power as clearly as tears in the eyes of people who are released from Russian occupation thanks to your support. I thank you very much! In these six months, we have started construction of the air shield for Ukraine, and therefore - to create one of the key security guarantees for all of Europe.
When we have a powerful and modern air defense system and about, we will be able to dismantle the basis of Russian terror, namely: we will destroy Russia's ability to destroy others. I am grateful to all our partners who help us with air defense and about, guarantee the safety of the entire Eastern flank of Europe. In six months, we not only retained the full range of political initiative, but also found a decision to overcome unprecedented crises provoked by Russia.
In particular, we have made globally useful steps to stop the food crisis and prevent a new migration crisis that could strike at least all over the south of our continent. I am grateful to all who have supported our export grain initiative, who has already joined our Humanitarian Initiative Grain from Ukraine (Grain from Ukraine) and who helps to create new logistics and export-import capabilities in all parts of Europe that strengthen all of us.
And just now we see what inner power Europe has to guarantee energy and save itself from social explosions that our common enemy hoped for. Europe has been prepared for winter in conditions when Russia has artificially created a completely crazy deficit in the gas market. Now we see that this madness has not hit Europe, but in the gas industry of Russia itself.
I am grateful to all of you who helps Ukraine to overcome the most cynical form of terror, which was only on our continent, is the energy terror. The Russian rate for the destruction of our energy infrastructure, our energy, and therefore - for a humanitarian catastrophe for tens of millions of Ukrainians and all our neighbors in the EU, is stored. Therefore, our need for your support for energy and therefore social sustainability is preserved.
Dear colleagues! Europe! The next six months will be largely decisive in the confrontation that Russia has begun with this aggression. Aggression against Ukraine and each of you, because the final target of Russia is much further than our border and Ukrainian sovereignty. The next six months will require more effort from us than this time has passed. First. Russia's energy terror should be defeated in all forms.
Any Russian energy source, any destructive actions of Russia against critical infrastructure in Ukraine or, for example, against submarine cables and gas pipelines in Europe, any attempt to destabilize gas and oil or nuclear power markets or nuclear power. From this point of view, the idea of price-caps for Russian energy exports is extremely useful. The stronger the tool that is the lower the price kep, the more stability will be in the global energy market.
And we urge you to agree on effective price caps, both oil, oil products, and gas from Russia. These price capes should be such that the terrorist state is definitely deprived of the ability to finance the war through the global market. And the final goal of all Europe's energy strategy should be the complete independence of our continent from dirty Russian energy. I assure you that from this perspective Ukraine will be a new reliable large supplier of "green" energy to all of Europe.
The second is winter stability of Ukraine. Russia wants to break your safety due to the destruction of our infrastructure. Any blackouts in Ukraine are strokes on your social systems through new waves of migration. Any attempts by Russia to show that Ukraine is not sufficiently stable-it is an attempt to show you, the world that Europe is not sufficiently stable. Therefore, I urge you to continue to do everything so we can support the energy supply of Ukrainians.
And I am grateful to everyone and every one of you who already helps with the supply of equipment and financial support. But now, for the next six months without shocks, there is something else. In particular, we need support for the purchase of gas, which is used to compensate for the damage from Russian blows to other generations. It is 2 billion cubic meters of gas. We also need electricity support for Ukraine - with EU supply.
Just as we can help you export electricity when we restore our generation, we need your help now to go through this winter. It is about the supply of electricity worth about 800 million euros. The third aspect is defensive support. It should be no less than in the past six months. This is critical for the protection of Ukrainian freedom and the very idea of Europe in global confrontation with Russia. But, in addition, we need more modern weapons, more supply.
This applies to air defense and about. And I ask each of the 27 countries of the European Union to decide what you can specifically do to increase the volume of air defense and about. This also applies to modern tanks. There is no rational reason why Ukraine would not get them now. I ask you to show leadership: the one who is the first to provide modern tanks will open up this opportunity for the whole world and will be remembered as one of the most important defenders of freedom in our time.
This also applies to more long -range artillery and rocket systems that could speed up the end of Russian aggression. All this is the direct rescue of millions of lives. The fourth is diplomacy. Over the past six months, we have developed and offered the world the formula of peace, which contains everything necessary to stop this war, but also to guarantee-reliably and long-lasting-that there will be no repetition of the same or the beginning of any other war in Europe.
I urge you to support the Ukrainian formula of peace! You all know its elements - they are logical, effective, can be implemented in the next six months. To do this, in the near future we will organize a summit - Global Peace Formula Summit. I hope that at this summit we will see all of you and your leadership in helping peace. Please note that each of the points of our peace formula enables every honest country to show its leadership and help with one or another purpose.
In fact, it is as a menu for leadership. And these are the opportunities for all countries to contribute to the security of Ukraine, the whole of Europe, the world. These are opportunities for those who are more active in international relations and for those who are still less to protect peace. And the fifth - for the next six months. Value. I want to thank you again for the support of Ukraine in the candidate. Now it's time to take another step.
Despite the war, we do not stop the institutional transformation of our country. On the same week, three European integration laws were approved by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine: the Law on National Communities, the Law on the Modernization of the Principles of Work of the Constitutional Court of Ukraine, the sphere of media. And this is only one illustration of many things we have done to prepare the next stage of Ukraine and the EU.
Namely, an assessment of the implementation of the recommendations of the European Commission, which we expect from you in the near future. And we ask you to do it, and to accelerate this process to continue to go to the start of negotiations on Ukraine's membership in the EU. I believe that all the accentuated I will be realized today. Because for Ukraine and for Europe, when we are together, there is nothing impossible. We will win any terror, any of our common tasks we will realize.
I thank you for your attention! And thank you for the support! I would like to thank for your sanction steps for the past six months, for the package of financial support of our country next year, 18 billion euros, which can now be finally approved at the leadership level. This is vital. And, Charles, my friend, I very much ask you for our struggle for peace for Ukraine and for all of Europe to depend on misunderstandings and disputes between some EU member states.