Zelensky: Ukraine maintaining stability of state institutions amid war

On the day of the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky emphasized that Ukraine managed to maintain the stability of state institutions during the war.

“During such a war, we were able to obtain the status of the EU candidate. We have maintained the stability of public institutions. The power system was rebuilt to work in the power grid of the European continent. All logistical processes in the state – military and economic – were rechanneled,” the President said in his latest address.

According to Zelensky, the important thing is that the Ukrainians maintain internal unity, having overcome conflicts and contradictions that hindered in the past.

“We must all remember the cost of mistakes and discord that made it difficult for previous generations to achieve the results we have today. We must remember how much our people had to go through until it became possible to restore Ukraine's sovereignty and independence,” the President noted.

He noted that the Declaration of State Sovereignty of Ukraine had been endorsed on this day 32 years ago. The document confirmed the right of the Ukrainian people to live independently and in a democratic way.

“Thirty-two years later, after eight years of war in Donbas and on the 143rd day of the full-scale war against Russia, it may seem that the text of the Declaration could be different, particularly from a security point of view. But at that time this text was also of a revolutionary character. The Declaration restored the tradition of Ukrainian state-establishing, and it was on its basis that the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was later adopted,” the President said.

“And today, when our people are fighting for independence, we have our right in every sense of the word – historically, politically, culturally and, what is very important – legally. In particular, our people's confidence in victory is based on this,” Zelensky added.

He underscored that Ukraine would gradually liberate the occupied areas of our country.

On February 24, Russia began a new stage of the eight-year war against Ukraine – the full-scale invasion. The Russian troops shell and destroy key infrastructure facilities, massively fire on residential neighborhoods of Ukrainian cities and villages using artillery, MLRS, aerial bombs, and ballistic missiles.

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