Around 200 students from various faculties and programs attended the meeting. Special attention was given to the issue of how to bring back young people who had left the country due to the war.
In Lviv the parties discussed expectations from next year's Polish presidency of the Council of the European Union, and cooperation in supplying weapons for the defense of the front.
A meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities under the President of Ukraine was held in Lviv to discuss the outcomes of this year's work and outline the main priorities for the coming year.
Ukraine needs the full implementation of agreements on the supply of air defense systems, particularly those reached at the NATO Summit in Washington. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated this during his online address to the participants of the Joint Expeditionary Force Summit.
The Head of State laid flowers on the graves of fallen warriors at the Field of Mars in the Lychakiv Cemetery, where defenders of Ukraine who died in battles against Russian occupiers have been buried since April 2022.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy thanked Latvia for all the defense assistance provided, noting that Ukraine needs training and equipping of brigades by its allies, following the example of France and the United States.
Finland has approved the 26th defense support package for Ukraine and has already started preparing the next one. This was announced by President of Finland Alexander Stubb in a telephone conversation with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.