The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyi, in his message on Friday evening, said that the liberation of Zmiiny Island a year ago is one of Ukraine’s great victories. “Ukraine and Ukrainians are much stronger than anyone thinks,” he said.

• “Today is the first anniversary of the liberation of the Snake Island from the Russian invaders. This is one of our great victories. We will remind you that last year, in the spring, no one expected from Ukraine that we would be able to implement, in particular, this fundamental defense task – to ensure the safety of Zmiiny Island, and therefore a large part of the Black Sea. sea. But our fighters did it. Russian terrorists needed Snake Island to destroy the entire south of our country, our beautiful Odessa and other cities. Our soldiers stopped them and expelled them from Snake Island.”
• “Ukraine and Ukrainians are much stronger than anyone thinks about us. Sometimes stronger than we used to believe. Thanks to everything that our people manage to do in the confrontation with Russian terrorists, we reveal to the whole world and to ourselves a new Ukrainian strength – a real Ukrainian strength. A power that we will never lose and that will always be a pillar of the security of the free world.”
• “I am grateful to everyone who liberated Snake Island! This operation was managed by the Intelligence Service of the Ministry of Defense together with other units of the Defense and Security Forces of our country. Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense and the special unit of the SBU “Alpha”, the Navy and the military aviation of the Ground Forces Command, the aviation of the Air Force and our powerful border police. Thank you!” Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, News.ro reports.

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The Kyiv leader also talked about the discussion at Friday’s meeting with the army command.

• “At today’s meeting of the General Staff, we analyzed the supply of artillery ammunition – to the east, to the south. And although our work with our partners to obtain ammunition for the Ukrainian military is already at full capacity, we are still intensifying it. Strengthening our artillery is an obvious priority, and all experts of foreign policy departments received additional tasks today.”
• “The situation in the north, especially on the territory of Belarus, was analyzed separately. This was reported by our special services today. We very carefully analyze every detail and every perspective in all directions. By the decision of the General Staff, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny and General Naev were instructed to strengthen the northern direction – to ensure peace. Appropriate deadlines have been set.”

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Zelensky thanked Denmark for the new defense package for Ukraine.

• “Today I thank Denmark and personally Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen for the new defense package for Ukraine. Artillery ammunition, anti-aircraft missiles, demining equipment… Thank you!”.
• “Also, today we had several important preparatory meetings regarding the internal context in our state, relevant domestic events and international events – an extremely important period of foreign policy begins. Working to expand peace by expanding our security capabilities, alliances and cooperation. The following weeks will be extremely active, and the positions of our state are clearly defined, all our officials know what to do,” he said.

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