Every day, new Russian blows and reality prove that Russia should be forced to peace - the Presidential address

In total, the Russians used more than 260 air attacks in this blow: winged and ballistic missiles, shock drones. Our military managed to respond to the impact as professionally as possible. I want to thank every unit, all the services involved, all our soldiers. As always, the blow was reflected comprehensively. In particular, fighter aviation was used-F-16 and French "mirages", which have shown themselves very well today.

Emmanuel, thank you! I would like to point out all our fighter pilots, our helicopters of Ukraine's defense forces, our HRS units and mobile fire groups of our army and separately-units of the 160th anti-aircraft missile brigade, 208th anti-aircraft missile brigade and the 540th anti-aircraft missile brigade. Well done, warriors! We are also actively working to prevent any shortage of supply to protect life.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Umerov is currently in a continuous business trip - constantly at meetings and in communication with partners for the sake of new support packages, and air defense is, of course, the first priority. Today, this blow to Russia on our power system, in our civilian objects, has taken place as ordinary for Russia, so was cynical as always, as if there are no efforts of Ukraine and the world at all to end this war.

Ukraine is ready for peace as soon as possible - we have offered specific steps. And every day, new Russian blows and reality prove that Russia should be forced to peace - to stop war, to real diplomacy, to guaranteeing security and to a reliable and long peace. I thank everyone who helps Ukraine, all who support our country, our people, our defense and just the truth. And a few more things. We have greatly increased support in Europe this week. Both by the EU line and from individual countries.

There is a particularly strong decision from Norway to finance our stability - the level of announced assistance this year is increased to $ 7. 7 billion, and most will be aimed at the production of weapons in Ukraine. This will help a lot. I thank. We also expect the decisions of other countries in Northern Europe. France will speed up its security assistance. The Netherlands is ready to invest 700 million euros in the production of drones. There are new Baltic friends decisions to support.

There are good security agreements with the EU President and the President of the European Commission by von Der Lyen. We are preparing to meet at the level of the General Staff in France. We continue to work with our partners who want peace, as we want, as we do, over the appropriate steps. And next week there will be a lot of work here, in Europe, with America, in Saudi Arabia - we are preparing a meeting to speed up peace and make it strong.