Speeches

Our front is strong, and I thank every warrior and every one of our units that is carrying out its tasks in full.

Without a determined European Union capable of making strong decisions Putin would have gone much further by now. The European Union has not fallen apart. It has not backed down or given in to fear when it came to defending the European way of life. And that mattered just as much as the courage of Ukrainians.

Today, I’ll speak with Denmark, and I’ll speak with Lithuania – with the prime ministers. Tomorrow, we have important negotiations in the United Kingdom. This week, we’ll also be holding talks with the European Union. There will be support packages for Ukraine, and we are also making progress in the negotiations on our accession to the European Union.

Everyone in America knows our position, and many support that very position – that everything must be fair. Ukraine is ready for an energy ceasefire, and we are the ones who have repeatedly proposed such a ceasefire. Russia must take its own steps toward “silence.”

Last night, Russian oil refineries were not burning. But at midnight, a Russian jet-powered “shahed” struck a gas-production facility in Ukraine. And there was also a Russian strike on an ordinary gas station, involving several drones. And repair crews are still working to fix the damage from yesterday’s attacks. So there were Russian violations of the energy ceasefire announced by President Trump.

Today, there was a statement from the President of the United States that an energy ceasefire has been secured. This is good news for everyone – and it is important that it become reality.

Putin can still sell oil, and when he does the math in dollars and euros, war still pays – it is advantageous for him to wage war. War is in his nature, it is his ideology. And all of this is a problem not only for Ukraine, not only for us, not only for our people and our children. It is a problem for everyone in Europe – and in the Western world.

Please respond to missile threat alerts. Ukrainian services and our Air Force are ready to respond – as much as our defenses allow. And a lot depends on our partners – every leader and every country in the world that has the defensive capabilities we need and can provide them to us.

Right now, all leaders – all of us in Europe, everyone in America, absolutely all our partners – need to focus and, right now, in October, provide the maximum possible protection against Russian strikes and the maximum possible support for our diplomatic capabilities.

We are reaching an important result – 15 agreements between our companies, between German and Ukrainian businesses in our industries. And this is very important. We have never had such a result between our countries even in peacetime, let alone such strong agreements during the war.