@ZelenskyyUa I hope the day of peace will come soon, and I hope all aggressors will realize that aggressing others will bring them a greater price to pay.
Russia must get out of Ukraine with its war – we want no war. Ukraine has put forward proposals to our key partners, and Putin’s friends have also heard from us that a meeting is possible and that ending this war is possible. Russia must now take that step toward peace.
Every Russian defense facility that serves the war against Ukraine is a just target for our long-range sanctions.
Last night, FP-5 Flamingo missiles successfully struck the Titan-Barrikady facility in Volgograd. It is a major industrial complex where the enemy produces artillery systems and specialized military equipment, including components for missile launch systems used in attacks against our people. Confirmed strikes were followed by a fire on the plant's premises. I thank the warriors of our Defense Forces for their precision.
The reach of Ukraine's long-range sanctions continues to expand. And it is precisely our pressure, day after day, that lays the groundwork for a dignified peace in the end. I am grateful to every Ukrainian engineer and warrior who is making our long-range capabilities possible. Glory to Ukraine!
This week, 15 of our regions have been targeted by Russian strikes. There have been almost daily attacks on Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Kharkiv, and Sumy. The Russians are using various types of weapons to strike people, ordinary residential buildings, and our civilian infrastructure. Unfortunately, there are casualties from this terror almost every day. And the threat of these Russian attacks remains constant. Over the course of this past week alone, there were around 1,400 attack drones, almost 1,500 guided aerial bombs, and 19 missiles of various types, including ballistic ones.
Strengthening air defense – primarily anti-ballistic protection – expanding cooperation within the Drone Deal format, and increasing pressure on the aggressor are key priorities. Sanctions on Russia and its partners over this war must be enforced where they will be felt most. We need strong and rapid steps that will force Russia to move toward ending this war. Everything that strengthens Ukraine helps bring peace closer. I thank everyone who is helping us.
Today is Constitution Day of Ukraine!
Exactly 30 years ago, the Fundamental Law of our state was adopted. And it is Ukrainian men and women who give it strength. Our people write the pages of our history, and it is they who fill the pages of our Constitution with life: through their example, their deeds, their work, and their struggle for Ukraine.
Sovereign. Self-determined.
Democratic. Governed by the rule of law.
European. Peaceful. Independent.
Happy Constitution Day of Ukraine!
День Конституції України наші воїни почали дуже влучно. Цієї ночі наші далекобійні санкції досягли двох нафтопереробних заводів у Росії. Уражено НПЗ «Слов’янський» у Краснодарському регіоні – це близько 300 кілометрів від лінії фронту. Також ми досягли НПЗ у Ярославському регіоні, що приблизно за 700 кілометрів від нашого кордону.
Ми продовжуємо наші операції, які послаблюють можливості Росії вести цю війну. Кожна наша далекобійна санкція – це зменшення ресурсів, що працюють на російську воєнну машину, і ще один крок до миру. Будемо і надалі відповідати на російський терор. Дякую воїнам за ці результати! Вдячний усім, хто нам допомагає. Кожен, хто захищає Україну, утверджує і силу Конституції.
Our warriors began Ukraine’s Constitution Day with great accuracy. Last night, our long-range sanctions reached two oil refineries in Russia. The Slavyansk oil refinery in the Krasnodar region was hit – about 300 kilometers from the frontline. We also reached a refinery in the Yaroslavl region, approximately 700 kilometers from our border.
We continue our operations that weaken Russia’s ability to wage this war. Each of our long-range sanctions means fewer resources serving Russia’s war machine, and another step toward peace. We will continue to respond to Russian terror. I thank our warriors for these results! I am grateful to everyone who helps us. Everyone who defends Ukraine also upholds the power of the Constitution.
Today, for the first time, a prayer was held at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra that brought together priests from different regions of Ukraine – those whose churches have been damaged and destroyed by Russian strikes. Ukraine’s wounded churches: in the Kharkiv region, the Sumy region, Dnipro, Chernihiv, and Irpin. Together with them, priests from Berdiansk, the Odesa region, and the Ternopil region, who went through the hell of Russian captivity, prayed for Ukraine.
Father Vasyl Fedorenko, who combined service to God and military service – defending Mariupol and baptizing fighters at Azovstal. Chaplain Mykola Luchynskyi, who opened an exhibition about this war in a church in Khmelnytskyi, bringing its exhibits himself after his regular trips to the front. A parish minister in the Ivano-Frankivsk region, Ivan Teremko, who once underwent an amputation and today visits our severely wounded fighters and strengthens their spirit. The head of the Polish church in the Mykolaiv region, Paweł Staniaszek, who was born in Poland but has lived in Ukraine since 2014, having chosen helping our people and our warriors at the front as his mission. And Valentyn Horokhovskyi from Kherson, who did not surrender his church to the occupiers, evacuated many children from the captured city, and returned to his church after Kherson was liberated – because truth always prevails.
From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (1/5)
2026 is a special year for our state. Ukraine is marking anniversaries: the adoption of the Constitution, the establishment of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the restoration of our state symbols and the hryvnia. And the culmination of all this is August 24, 2026 – Independence Day of Ukraine, the 35th anniversary of its restoration. It is important that in such a year, Ukraine is giving rise to new, landmark elements of its state-building.
Today, I submitted to Parliament a law on the Ukrainian National Pantheon. The names of all the heroes who, across different centuries and eras, fought for Ukraine and inspired Ukraine will be brought together and forever inscribed in our history – with a capital letter, with great respect and attention from the state. From a Ukraine that respects itself, values its people, and defends what is its own: its right to be Ukrainian. When no one, ever, will dictate how we should live, how we should speak, whom we should love, whom we should be grateful to, or which heroes we should honor.
From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (2/5)
Today we are righting yet another historical injustice. From now on, here in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a bust of a great Ukrainian and patron of the Lavra, Ivan Mazepa, will stand, as it rightfully should.
For centuries, Russia has smeared his name, striving to make Ukrainians view their own history through the eyes of others, convincing our people that Mazepa was a traitor. This lie has failed. Forever. And today, we honor our own outstanding statesman and military leader, patron, and head of the Cossack State, Ivan Mazepa. It is important that we are doing this precisely here, in the Lavra, which truly flourished under his patronage – with its churches, bell towers, and its unique Ukrainian Baroque face.
And without doubt, a figure of this scale deserves a full-fledged monument in the capital of our state. I believe that there is an ideal location for it. It has been there since December 2013 on Shevchenko Boulevard, and I am certain that where Lenin fell, Mazepa will stand firm.
From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (3/5)
Already in August, on the Feast of the Dormition, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra will mark 975 years since its founding. This is a special milestone. For in just one generation, Ukrainians on this land will be celebrating the Lavra’s millennium. Our national holy site, alongside St. Sophia, the Transfiguration Cathedral in Chernihiv, and other witnesses to the thousand-year existence of Kyivan Rus’ – all of this together definitively affirms the fact that the roots of Ukrainians on this land are vast, strong, and our own.
Ukraine will mark milestones such as the Lavra’s millennium with dignity. And preparations will begin today. After all, this is about a long and painstaking process: restoring and preserving dozens of cultural monuments, museum collections, the Lavra’s buildings, our great heritage, one of the world’s centers of Christianity. This requires a major, collective effort, which we are beginning today – and we must mark the Lavra’s millennium in the same unity that strengthens and protects our people and our state. I am signing the relevant Decree here and now.
From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (4/5)
Ukraine has already come a long way to the EU. Much has been built on this foundation, negotiations on our membership have already begun, clusters are already being opened, and every such step brings us closer together – Ukraine and the European Union, Ukrainians and all of Europe.
Behind every such success of the state stand our citizens, our warriors, and all our people who protect the security and the future of all of Europe. And who, through all their actions every day, bring closer not merely accession, but our affirmation as an integral part of the common European home. And behind every such step also stand our like-minded people from other countries – true friends and allies, tested by time and struggle, who have proven that Ukraine and Europe are one.
Ukraine will honor all such individuals with a new state award: the Order of Europe. A symbol of the effectiveness of our joint defense of Europe. Ukraine has fully earned the right to have an order with this very name – earned it through its round-the-clock fight for Europe’s life. And all those who have stood and continue to stand shoulder to shoulder with us in this fight will be honored with this distinction: Ukraine’s Order of Europe.
From the address on the occasion of Constitution Day of Ukraine. (5/5)
Україна завжди берегтиме свою історію. Берегтиме й захищатиме пам’ять про тих, хто творив нашу державу, відстоював її свободу та працював заради її майбутнього. Відтепер у Києво-Печерській лаврі стоятиме погруддя великого українця Івана Мазепи – одного з найвидатніших українських гетьманів, державників і меценатів.
Саме за опіки Івана Мазепи Києво-Печерська лавра набула свого величного вигляду: були зведені мури і фортифікації, оновлені храми, а також розвивалися друкарня та книгодрукування. Його внесок назавжди став частиною історії цієї святині.
Сьогодні вшановуємо велику історичну постать і повертаємо історичну справедливість. Бо народ, який шанує власну історію, завжди зберігає незалежність і свою державу.
Ukraine will always cherish its history. It will cherish and protect the memory of those who built our nation, defended its freedom, and worked for its future. From now on, a bust of the great Ukrainian Ivan Mazepa – one of the most outstanding Ukrainian hetmans, statesmen, and patrons – will stand in the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
It was under Ivan Mazepa’s patronage that the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra acquired its majestic appearance: walls and fortifications were built, churches were restored, and the printing house and book printing flourished. His contribution became forever part of the history of this holy site.
Today, we honor a great historical figure and restore historical justice. Because a people that honors its own history always preserves its independence and its state.