November Should Match, or Even Top, October’s Results With Partners – Address by the President

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I wish you good health, fellow Ukrainians!

A great deal of work with partners is currently underway - primarily for the sake of our air defense and our energy sector, which are key priorities amid such Russian strikes. Practically every day, our power engineers, repair brigades, and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine are carrying out restorations on-site after attacks: hits keep occurring across various points, especially in our communities, and especially near the Russian border and close to the front. Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, and Mykolaiv regions - emergency services and regional authorities are engaged everywhere. We are also building the necessary ties with partners to ensure equally prompt international support.

I spoke today with the Prime Minister of Japan. It was our first conversation with the new head of Japan's government. Relations with Japan are now, during this war, stronger than ever. And Japan is our principled supporter. We can still significantly expand our cooperation, primarily on energy, on air defense, and in sensitive areas such as exports of our weapons and exchanges of defense experience from this war. The world is interested in spreading the experience of our people for protecting lives, and we are ready to cooperate with those who truly help us, who help Ukraine. And we will significantly deepen cooperation with Japan. We share many common goals, including putting pressure on Russia so the war does not expand. Sanctions on Russia, using Russian assets to defend against Russian aggression, and coordinating our diplomatic efforts - all of this is on the agenda.

Today, I also spoke with the President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nausėda. I am grateful for his support. They express readiness to assist with gas supplies, and I instructed the team to study the matter and prepare proposals for political agreements. I also briefed him on the situation in our country and on relations with partners - we are working with Gitanas so that all free countries and leaders in our region cooperate more closely. We also have many shared security challenges, including air defense against threats from Russia and Belarus. We will certainly help.

I spoke today with the President of Serbia as well. Besides security issues, we discussed the situation in our relations with the European Union and the related challenges. Ukraine received a positive report on our progress toward membership talks - which is, by the way, the best report in three years - on our rapprochement with the EU. And we are ready to support all efforts of our partners - those who are also on the path to membership, so that the European Union ultimately emerges stronger.

We are also planning diplomatic activities for the coming weeks. The details won't be made public yet, but our representatives have plenty to work on with partners in Europe and with representatives of the United States. November should match, or even top, October's results with partners.

There were also military briefings today, including a separate report from the Head of the Security Service of Ukraine. In Pokrovsk, we continue to destroy the occupier. I want to particularly commend the personnel of the "A" Special Operations Center of the Security Service of Ukraine, who systematically and very effectively destroy Russian occupiers and their equipment in the Pokrovsk area and in the city itself. Thank you, guys, for achieving results. There are also necessary outcomes from our units fighting in this direction: our assault units, our operators of the Unmanned Systems Forces, our National Guard warriors, the Military Law Enforcement Service, the Defense Intelligence, and, of course, all the brigades defending the Donetsk region. I thank you all! I thank everyone who is fighting for our state and for our people.

Glory to Ukraine!