Dear Ukrainians!

Today is a long day - many meetings with our military. I am grateful to all units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other components of our Defense Forces of Ukraine: the Security Service of Ukraine, our intelligence, the National Guard of Ukraine, the National Police, our border guards. Every day we have the necessary results for Ukraine, and exactly those that are defined by our strategic objectives.

We continue to respond to Russian strikes on our cities and villages. During this period alone, the Russians struck at Sumy, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Kherson regions. There was a very cynical strike on Zaporizhia. There were also Russian strikes on Donetsk and our Kharkiv regions. Such Russian cruelty and aggression are the root cause of the war. And it is important that the Russians feel that this war exists and is precisely because of them. First. There are very tangible losses of the occupier on our land, which is now under the Russian flag. Russian military logistics in the temporarily occupied territory of Ukraine and the very presence of the occupiers there are extremely complicated. And this is the right signal from Russia. A signal that it will definitely not be possible for Russia to easily and with impunity steal the land of the Ukrainian people and any other people who are currently threatened by Russian ambitions. Modern technologies make occupation too difficult for the occupier and, perhaps, the most difficult it has ever been. Ukraine will continue to strengthen our technological base. Thank you to all the developers and all our manufacturers. This is not the first time Russia has occupied foreign lands - the Russian state consists of many conquered peoples, stolen lands. We are fighting for our land. We are fighting for our people. We are fighting for justice for Ukraine. I think our people in the temporarily occupied territory understand everything correctly. In the south of our country, in Crimea, in Donetsk and Luhansk regions. We do not allow Russia to use our land as a tool for prolonging the war and turning the occupation into an endless one. Our operation, in particular, regarding Crimea, is clearly calculated, and the way the operation is going on absolutely proves: if exactly what we talked about with our partners within the G7 framework appears in Ukraine - and this depends on the partners' decision - we will promptly provide the conditions when Russia will be forced to choose peace. We are very much counting on a positive response from our partners. They clearly know what we are talking about. Now, our military is knocking out on the temporarily occupied land of Ukraine and on the territory of Russia itself what works for the Russian war, what makes this war and Russian aggressiveness possible in general.

Today there was a report by the head of the GUR of the Ministry of Defense, in particular, on the results of our long-range and medium-range sanctions. Intelligence obtained some internal Russian documents with a real assessment of what is happening. And this is the assessment of the occupier himself: our pressure plan is painfully perceived by the Russian leadership. We are reaching arsenals: a significant amount of ammunition of the Baltic Fleet was destroyed near St. Petersburg, there were similar defeats in other areas. We are reaching military production - such as the production of critical components for missiles in Voronezh, and precisely those missiles with which the Russians strike our cities and villages, our energy sector, our lives. Or another target, a hit target - the plant in Cheboksary, which tested the Flamingo missiles. We are increasingly reaching Russian military logistics. Also confirmed are the destruction of gas facilities in the Orenburg region - more than 1,200 kilometers from the front. There are also many oil facilities throughout Russia. The Russian army's communications centers, which are strategically important for them and are used in strikes against Ukraine and in Russian threats to the world, have also been damaged. He ordered our intelligence and army to work ahead of schedule on those facilities that the Russians use to scale up the war. Now the Russian leadership is pulling more air defenses to Moscow, to Valdai, and to Putin's bridge across the Kerch Strait at the expense of air defenses in other directions. They have pulled hundreds of launchers for the S-400, S-500, and Pantsir systems to the Moscow region alone. Almost 90 air defense launchers have been pulled to Valdai from other regions of Russia, and a special air defense division is still being formed there to protect the peace of the Russian leadership. For comparison: in all other directions in Russia, in other cities, there are now several launchers. These are the priorities. They are protecting their power, protecting the source of this war.

There is already a fuel shortage in more than 60 Russian regions, and there is also a sharp increase in prices for gasoline and diesel, if, of course, they are available. Russian special services are even proposing to postpone or even cancel the ritual of electing United Russia to the State Duma - their next mock election was scheduled for September, and now we see from intelligence reports that Russia is not confident in the processes for September. There are many difficulties, and only because Putin refuses to end his war and does not hear our proposals for a meeting, proposals for real negotiations and a decent peace. We need to guarantee peace - this is the most important task.

Today there was a report by the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, in particular, about our active actions at the front. I thank the DShV - all units, as well as the 100th separate mechanized brigade. I approved our further activities. We discussed with the team and the further preparation of Drone Deals with our partners and the implementation of the agreements already reached. The volume of drone production should increase.

Ukraine never wanted war. Everyone knows this. From the first day of the war, we want peace, we want justice for Ukraine, we want guaranteed security. The Russian leadership knows that a decent peace is possible. It knows that the occupation cannot be legalized. It knows that the longer the war, the more difficult it is to deal with its consequences. Russia needs to make peace. The tools for this are there. I thank everyone who helps! I thank each and every one in our Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine, who fights for our state, who works for defense and guarantees us accuracy.

Glory to Ukraine!