Speeches

Now we can protect our cities from Russian glide bombs if American leadership makes a step forward and allows us to destroy Russian military aircraft on their bases.

We are doing and will always do everything to make Russian terror lose. And not only does our country need it, but everyone needs it, literally every partner, all nations.

And one more thing. I want to extend a special gratitude to our 110th separate mechanized brigade for shooting down another Russian combat aircraft in the Donetsk region – the twelfth in the past few months.

Ukraine will always stand as a nation capable of defending its own maritime interests, transportation arteries, and the interests of our allies and partners.

We aimed at doubling the strength of our air defense shield, and today the process has begun. We keep working, and new decisions will certainly follow.

We are working on the details of new decisions, new documents to be signed with our partners. There should be positive outcomes, including on air defense.

Today I held several meetings on our communication with partners – on plans for this July. There will be important negotiations. Some progress has also been made on new security agreements for Ukraine.

We are now consuming the full volume of imports agreed with the EU, and I am grateful to all our neighbors for this assistance.

For Russia, all this must end in defeat – and only then will the very idea of a war against Ukraine be defeated. We are doing everything for this with both weapons and diplomacy.

Strikes on the Russian border areas helped protect lives. So will further decisions – the bold decisions that must be made, that we need and that we are discussing with our partners.