These days, if you are abroad, be there with the flag of Ukraine and spread the truth about the crimes of the invaders - President Vladimir Zelensky's address
With their specificity, with their needs, with their expectations, which you need to respond so that veterans can contribute not only to the protection of our country on the forefront, but also to the post -war development of Ukraine. And not only the state, but also business, which is very important, employers, education, has to respond.
We will create such a system of veteran policy, services and services for veterans, the possibilities of their transition from military life to civil life, which will be on the same level with the strongest similar systems in the world. You can give an example of the Israeli model, also American. But our goal is that the Ukrainian experience of veteran policy has become a new example of imitation of others in the world over time.
Held a major meeting with representatives of the defense and security sector. There were Zaluzhny, Monastyrsky, Danilov, Budanov and others. Key issues are, of course, the situation in the forefront, security situation in major cities, as well as specific safety measures in connection with holidays and important political events of this week - meetings, negotiations. Already ready for the second summit of the Crimean platform.
This year, the summit will be even stronger than last year - both in composition of participants and on the subject of discussions. We greatly expand the format of the Crimean platform - tomorrow we will voice all the details. And today a new diplomatic and security format "Kyiv Initiative" was founded. The European neighbors of Ukraine are already involved in his work. It is Poland, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, the Baltic States. We will gradually attract other countries.
In the format of the Kyiv Initiative, the work is at the level of foreign policy advisers of the heads of state. From Ukraine is Andriy Sibiga, Andriy Yermak. And this format will enable us to strengthen interaction in the region, the joint protection of our interests, especially security. It is a very promising line of our work in the Euro -Atlantic direction. Today there is a good infrastructure news - they have updated and launched a railway branch that connects Ukraine and Moldova.
And we did it in our territory, and in the territory of Moldova - our Ukrzaliznytsia did, well done. For almost 25 years, this route has been closed and now has been working for Ukraine again. This is an important transport direction. And the average volume of cargo per year can be about 10 million tons. I am grateful to our partners from Moldova. Search work has ended at the scene of the occupants on an apartment building in Kharkiv. The house was destroyed by Russian shelling last Wednesday.
Only today managed to get from under the rubble of the body of all the dead. One of this Russian blow took the lives of 19 people. One. And such blows of inhuman in different parts of our country have not stopped for 180 days. The total number of various winged missiles used by Russia has already been approaching 3. 5 thousand. The strikes of Russian artillery simply cannot be calculated - so many of them are so intense.
And at the same time, the terrorist state does not stop playing with international structures and once again has the arrogance to gather the UN Council to discuss its own provocations, my own terror at the Zaporozhye NPP . . . I am grateful to all European politicians who do not forget that the eighth A sanction package against Russia is needed. The longer the interval between sanctions, the greater the boldness of Russia.
And I am grateful to all our friends, all friends of freedom in different countries of the world, which promote the need to recognize objective reality and legally define Russia by the terrorist state. This solution will still appear - sooner or later, and the only question is how many more lives will be taken away until the strikes from the international community are truly tangible to those who are responsible for this terror.