I wish you good health, fellow Ukrainians!

I hope you are fine, your parents are not sick, your children and grandchildren are healthy. Today it largely depends on your consciousness and discipline. The war against coronavirus is not over. The invisible enemy has not yet been defeated. That is why our struggle continues, and I hope you are ready to help us in this. But a little bit later about this.

Now I want to first of all thank our firefighters and rescuers. In recent days, the topic of fires has lost its hype for some media and gradually disappeared from the information space. Nevertheless, our firefighters and rescuers continued their daily work. As of today, most fires have been extinguished in the Zhytomyr region, and all fires in forests have been eliminated in the Exclusion Zone. Thank you for your hard work.

In addition, a session of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine took place today. I thank each of our people's deputies.

Despite all the rumors and accusations, all the dirt, pressure, you have adopted the long-suffering "banking law". Your decision has become a green light for Ukraine to receive important financial support - billions of US dollars.

Now, most importantly. Fellow Ukrainians! For three days, we have been living in the first stage of quarantine mitigation. The key word is mitigation. Not cancellation, not end, but mitigation. And it applies only to certain activities.

This does not mean that now everyone can relax: walk without a mask, or gather in large companies, or not keep your distance. Nobody canceled it.

The second phase of quarantine mitigation is scheduled for May 22. It will concern, in particular, sports competitions, work of hotels, carrying out standardized external testing etc. I know that everyone does not understand now what summer will be like. How to plan a vacation, when planes or trains will be allowed. When cinemas, beaches and the subway will work again.

The answer is simple: it all depends on all of us.

Each subsequent stage of mitigation is possible only when we achieve specific indicators. In particular, a moderate number of new cases and uncritical loading of beds in hospitals.

Simply put: every time you do not wear a mask and risk infecting other people, you yourself delay the opening of restaurants, beaches and everything else.

Understand - it is not difficult for us to sign a paper and open the subway or allow concerts tomorrow. But what will be the consequences? Million coronavirus patients? And then, instead of mitigation, the quarantine will have to be strengthened.

Once again, I ask you to compare our statistics with those of other countries, including our neighbors. We are able to contain the situation due to timely actions and your support. Let's continue this.

Which of you wants 20,000 new patients every day? Who wants thousands of deaths every day? Doctors falling from fatigue? Scary pictures from movies about the apocalypse becoming a reality on the streets of your city? I'm sure no one wants that.

Therefore, please be responsible and help us - wear masks when you need to go outside, follow hygiene measures. Each of us must be an integral part of a single army - and only then will we defeat the disease. Our weapons are patience, discipline and responsibility.

The coming days are crucial. Let's get together and do our best to reach the next stage of quarantine mitigation.

It depends solely on us.

Keep well, fellow Ukrainians!

I wish you 36.6!

Take care of ourselves! Save Ukraine!