President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrives at the Peace Summit in Burgenstock, Switzerland, where he will officially open the summit with Swiss President Viola Amherd.
U. S. Vice President Kamala Harris announces more than $1.5 billion in aid to Ukraine to support the energy sector, humanitarian needs, and civilian security.
World leaders are gathering in Switzerland for the Peace Summit, and European officials have spoken out about the impact of the event.
President Zelenskyy said that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin must be put in his place by all possible means: strengthening Ukraine, imposing powerful sanctions, and politically isolating him and his society.
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili will attend the Peace Summit in Burgenstock, despite tensions with the Georgian government over her foreign visits.
According to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the meeting with Pope Francis was very meaningful. He said that the Vatican was helping Ukraine a lot in the issue of returning Ukrainian children illegally deported by russia.
President Zelenskyy criticized Putin's call to lift sanctions against Russia as demonstrating his inadequacy, saying that the world imposed sanctions because of Russia's occupation of Ukrainian territories and killing of people, and that sanctions can only be lifted when Russia withdraws from the occupied territories.
Zelenskyy expects the peace summit to initiate substantive decisions on food security, nuclear safety, and the return of deported Ukrainian children, which will be the beginning of a long road to peace.
President Zelenskyy met with Pope Francis during his visit to Italy to discuss Russia's aggression against Ukraine, the Vatican's role in establishing peace, and the return of abducted Ukrainian children.
Japan plans to hold an international conference on demining in Ukraine in the fall of 2025 to address the issue of anti-personnel mines left by Russian troops.
Five countries, including the United States, will provide Ukraine with Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities, as discussed by Presidents Zelenskiy and Biden.
Zelenskyy met with British Prime Minister Sunak at the G7 summit, reaffirming their shared commitment to ending Putin's illegal war and ensuring support for Ukraine's army, economy, and people.
President Zelenskyy discussed the security situation, defense cooperation, preparations for the NATO summit and the return of internally displaced Ukrainian children with Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
Biden and Zelenskiy sign a 10-year US-Ukraine bilateral security agreement during the G7 summit in Italy.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban have found common ground on Ukraine, so Budapest will not block macro-financial and long-term assistance, including training for Ukrainian soldiers.
Ukraine's President Zelenskiy attends the G7 summit after the group agreed to a $50 billion aid package to Ukraine, to be financed by frozen Russian assets.
G7 leaders gather for their annual summit in Italy, seeking to double down on support for Ukraine with a $50 billion loan package using frozen Russian assets, confront China's economic ambitions, and discuss issues such as artificial intelligence, while also facing domestic challenges.
Ukraine sends 2,453. 26 tons of sunflower oil as humanitarian aid to African countries and Palestine for the first time as part of the Grain from Ukraine initiative.
The peace summit in Switzerland aims to develop general parameters for peace between the participating countries based on international law and the UN charter, focusing on issues such as nuclear security, prisoner exchange and the return of abducted Ukrainian children, but it is not a platform for direct negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
Argentine President Javier Milay will attend a summit on Ukraine in Switzerland this weekend after initially declining to attend at the request of Ukrainian President Zelensky and others.
Ukraine is negotiating with the United States and European partners to receive 2-3 new air defense systems in the near future, as stated by President Zelenskyy during a meeting with the German Defense Minister.
Ukraine offers a fundamentally different format, so that no one can manipulate or disrupt the agreements, as Russia has done many times.
Zelensky considers the very fact of holding the first inaugural peace summit in Switzerland on June 15-16 to be a great success, despite the fact that it did not bring any peace, since it is important not to give up the peace initiative to russia.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed confidence that Ukraine will end the war in the interests of the country and in the interests of the whole of Europe on terms that are understandable to anyone.
The heads of parliaments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine adopted a joint declaration in which they commit to continue cooperation in the field of security, support Ukraine's path to NATO and EU membership, and called for the lifting of restrictions on the supply of Western weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
If we want to preserve our state, we must protect it, Zelensky says, emphasizing the need to receive a full range of weapons from international partners to counter Russian aggression and mobilize enough soldiers to liberate the occupied territories.
Zelensky said that at the meeting with Scholz, they talked about what we can do in the coming months and over the next few years to provide Ukraine with sufficient energy generation. Also about Ukraine's European integration – about expectations from this June.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky is confident that only after limiting Russia's ability to terrorize its neighbors can real peace be achieved.
Zelensky stressed the importance of preventing pro-Russian populist slogans in the European Parliament elections, as they pose a danger to Ukraine and EU countries.
Over the past two years, Irpen, one of the most affected cities in the Kiev region, has implemented more than 200 successful restoration projects, making it a leader in reconstruction in Ukraine.