[000:00:00;00] glory to the heroes. we will do it because we understand that our main wealth is our people. that is why we are happy for every ukrainian and the ukrainians we managed to save because we know that there is no small help and we are ready to support to the best of our ability. each of their shots only strengthens our unity and desire for victory , unlike them we will persevere, we will win

and we will recover from the ruins for a purpose more than ever . lviv is a platform for the interaction of central authorities and local communities . it should help solve the urgent problems of the regions, especially in the conditions of a full-scale war

. were discussed at the congress dear ladies and gentlemen we welcome you to the meeting of the congress of local and regional authorities under the president of ukraine ladies and gentlemen

president of ukraine volodymyr zelenskyi the floor is given to the president of ukraine, the head of the congress of regional and local vlad volodymyr zelenskyi thank you glory to ukraine thank you very much i congratulate everyone present who is with us now who is in touch with us i am very glad to be here today in lviv oblast in lviv today we held a meeting of the congress of local and regional the system of ukraine believes that this will be

a special meeting of involvement, especially in the sense that all members of the congress or those who represent the totality of power in ukraine, both at the central level and of all cities and villages, the regional leadership of both the free territory and the temporarily occupied territory of our state, the government represented, headed by the prime minister of the verkhovna rada of ukraine, oleksiyovych, the verkhovna rada committee , the office of andrii yarmak, our security forces, all the heads of the respective security institutions, to whom should they address their obligations must be present uh, absolutely all of our security forces and all ukrainian communities from the north to the south, from

the east to the west, here today are the ambassadors of some respected countries. thank you very much, partners joined because the issues are all relevant to our partners of ukraine who are also present, the main task of our congress today is not only, as they say, summing up the work of state institutions and local authorities during the most difficult year of our country, the year of war, but defining solutions, well , this is especially important for me, solutions to hear for all citizens of ukraine in order to make our state even stronger, the state at all levels from our central government structures to the management of ukrainian communities and before

we start our meeting, if we are honest we know this year took away many jews, many lives of different people, our soldiers, civilians who became soldiers because of this war, that's how it is and it's the truth, everyone in their place and among them are 25 representatives of local self-government, heads of our community, just community workers, deputies of local councils. i would like to we have now honored their memory

a moment of silence just sit down ladies and gentlemen dear attendees the agenda of the meeting speaks for itself it seems to me that our priorities for today security defense issues social the protection of our people and the restoration of state and local institutions in the acquired territory, reconstruction in the liberated areas, we will discuss the most difficult issue separately. a month ago

, it was the most difficult issue. the decisions needed to protect the energy industry must be presented today, let's consider the strategic issue of ukraine's development, in particular , anti-corruption work, it is also very it is important that it should give more transparency and efficiency to all our institutions of various levels in the state, i want to thank you all, dear participants of our meeting, for how the state passed this year , for what was done, for what is being done , thank you very much, especially from the point of view of protecting ukraine and protection of ukrainians, we preserved the functionality of the state, we made it so that the presence of the ukrainian flag also means the presence of life in ukraine, a normal life

, above all, normal social opportunities, and when we liberate our land from the enemy, all they realize this not only by the way, not only by the way in ukraine, but everywhere everyone knows that we return everything, we return from life , we return ukraine, we return, we return everything necessary for people, transport is also communication, social payments are medicine, electricity supply, water, we restore infrastructure thousands of different objects that were almost killed, some damaged by the war or completely destroyed by the occupiers, they have been restored, the logistics of the state have been rebuilt, not everything has been restored, everything

is going little by little, and our defense, our economy in social function is provided well, probably as much as possible i would often like to thank some of you often at the local level even faster than despite thousands of russian attacks, we are all together ensuring the indomitability of ukraine, and this is a priority , war, victory, indomitability for this victory . i think all these items on our agenda are all aimed at exactly that it is definitely a priority and i believe that everything else is not about all the little things as results, our people and all the people of the world see that ukraine

is a powerful state and a subject ukraine knows how to protect life well knows how to protect life so we all have to act together with you in the future to increase the possibilities of our state and to make powerful decisions very quickly , mistakes happen , try to make fewer mistakes, more to speed up the victory, this is the most important need for our entire state. oleksandrovych, i, as the executive secretary of the congress of brazil, will present our event with your permission. i convey the words of the president of the congress to the head of the office of the president of ukraine andriy borysovychak. thank you, dear mr. president, dear mr. speakers , dear mr. prime minister, representatives

of the government and parliament, dear representatives of the security sector and defense, dear representatives of the municipal authorities of ukraine and our foreign partners and friends, i am pleased to congratulate you all today, just two years have passed since the president approved the provisions about the congress of local and regional authorities and the war greatly adjusted our time frame, we created our congress with you for the purpose of strengthening the cooperation of authorities of all levels, discussing the urgent problems of communities and regions and joining efforts to solve them against the background of the war, all these tasks became even more urgent events in the past year , we have repeatedly proven from the position of specific representatives of the authorities that the life and health of many of our

citizens often depends on the speed and quality of our interaction with you, and sometimes even the success of our defenders on the battlefield. so, as the president emphasized, the issue of defense and security is the leading issue for us today. we must continue to do everything to strengthen the defense capability of our state. at the same time, the undisputed priority for the president and for the entire team from the first day are and remain our people, and this is our constant, people above all. all the more now , special attention is paid to the residents of temporarily occupied and already de-occupied territories and forcibly displaced people, first of all, safety and satisfaction of people's basic needs, this is energy, the commune, the sphere of housing, and precisely these issues on the agenda of today's meeting but after the victory, we will face no less serious challenges and tasks, we will have to create conditions for the return of those who were forced to leave their native places, we will have to rebuild our country, we will have to make

hundreds of settlements suitable for life according to the calculations of our government the aggressor has already destroyed or damaged more than 81,000 objects of civil infrastructure, the lion's share of them is the majority, 62,000 is the housing stock, it is more than 2,000 educational institutions, almost half a thousand hospitals, all this must be restored in the shortest possible time, the huge scale of the task requires us to concentrate our efforts and be extremely efficient, we must not only rebuild every settlement, housing and all infrastructures, we must take the opportunity to build them at the best modern world level and in the shortest possible time, time is not renewable its resource will not be in any package of foreign aid of our friends , so we should not go around the path of reform. it

is better to fly, and here we should remember their quality implementation depends not only on the central government, it depends on each of the representatives of local and regional authorities on their ability to effectively interact . the large-scale russian aggression has brought to an extreme the demographic challenges facing ukraine in the coming decades. therefore , every representative of the government, every community leader must do everything to all ukrainians who went abroad because of the war , but this is not enough, we need people from all over the world, because it is people who create a powerful economy, well, to get a powerful army of courts attract capital for the development of such an economy. therefore , the safety and prosperity of the whole of ukraine depend on each new open production, on each new workplace in a specific community, on the level of comfort in them , and we are here for this purpose, i wish us all fruitful

work. glory to ukraine. thank you andriy borisovich . the word is also given to the head of the verkhovna rada of ukraine ruslan oleksiyovych stefanchuk thank you dear mr. president dear mr. president of the congress dear mr. prime ministers dear participants of the congress dear guests of course when we let's remember when this congress was created, fairly normal goals were set for a normal, peaceful country, february 24 significantly changed priorities, they wanted to change priorities and set before us slightly different tasks that did not exist at the beginning of the creation of this body, at least i would like to especially today thank those who at that time held and holds our regional front because today the situation in ukraine has shown that thanks to the armed forces of ukraine we have success, but also territorial communities and territorial

defense, they did everything to victory was approaching as quickly as possible and therefore i thank you all on behalf of the parliament and on behalf of the entire ukrainian people because only together can we go where we can demonstrate the strength and power of the great ukrainian nation. concentrated work of the parliament. during this period, these are several main directions, primarily social protection, we know the laws that were adopted, it was possible to build a system of financial support for the citizens most affected by military aggression, they expanded circle of people who are provided with social assistance and we continue to carry out all the necessary things that we need in order to ensure the proper level of social protection . the second component is the restoration of regions. issues related to the future and today we had the opportunity to

participate in another event that concerns issues of restoring justice, a component of justice, including issues in international and national compensation mechanisms. i think that here a big role will be given to the regions precisely because correctly formulated methods correctly formulated approaches to ensuring the register of damage caused correctly formulated disposition of these funds - this is a component of success, a component of transparency, a component of trust in each other. i think that it is what will the parliament work on in the near future and of course national security national security you know that starting at seven o'clock in the morning the parliament gathered more a year ago and approved the president on martial law, we all work side by side and do everything for our security, for our defense , for our troops, for ukraine as a whole to receive very strong support from the legislative body, and therefore i want to thank everyone who joined before that dear colleagues

, in conclusion, i just want to emphasize that today, march 4, 208 years ago , the great ukrainian composer mykhailo verbytskyi was born. he is the person who wrote the melody of our anthem with you and today sounds all over the world as the anthem of freedom, as they are free people, as new people, i really want that together we did everything so that as soon as possible it sounded to them, including that of our joint victory thank you all and glory to ukraine, glory to the heroes thank you, i also want to invite the words of the prime minister of ukraine denys anatoliyovycha shmel dear mr. president of ukraine dear mr. chairman of the verkhovna rada dear mr. chairman of the presidium of the congress dear government officials dear parliamentarians what do i have heads of communities, cities,

administrations, highly respected representatives of our partners, highly respected participants and guests of today's congress, today the government is in constant communication with the local authorities, we are discussing the most pressing issues, the goal is to quickly and effectively identify all challenges and build an effective wartime regional policy , it is extremely important today the president emphasized three important words: war , victory and indomitability, a symbol of indomitability there is a rapid recovery and actual rapid recovery and implementation of projects according to clearly defined priorities in the energy sector restoration of livelihoods for people, humanitarian demining in critical social transport infrastructure, in support of small and medium-sized businesses , in order to give back to people the opportunity to work and have a job and an income, currently we have uah 17 billion in the budget already budgeted for the special account of the state fund for liquidation of the consequences of the armed aggression of the russian

federation these are confiscated funds from russian banks, during the year the fund will receive another 35.5 billion hryvnias, we are also grateful and count on the help of the united states america in the amount of 1.5 billion dollars plus 1.1 billion is not a recovery, a quick recovery of the energy sector of ukraine and moldova, also from the united states, the european union has undertaken to help us in the amount of 1 billion euros for a quick reconstruction, we are also waiting for the solidarity of norway and japan, which has already announced its intentions through the united quantifor initiative of the president of ukraine, has already collected over uah 500 million for this. for the purpose of rapid reconstruction, this money has already been invested. for example, in such cities, there is patience throughout the territory of ukraine for the implementation of projects rapid recovery, especially the recovery of people's housing. so, in total, we can count on

uah 150 billion this year, which will go primarily to the restoration of energy, the restoration of housing , the restoration of critical infrastructure, the available potential financial resources, of course , must be used as efficiently as possible, and for this, clear interaction is necessary along the lines of the government of the regional administration and the community, we created the position of vice-prime minister for reconstruction in the government , created a state agency for reconstruction and infrastructure development, we must realize that the recovery of ukraine, the rapid recovery, and the future major recovery will become a mega-project for years for the entire vertical of the ukrainian government of local communities . our task is to approach this process as efficiently as possible, as transparently and qualitatively as possible. no one is going to sit and wait for the reconstruction. this year, people should already see the effect of this task of the president - it is our joint

work with you and our joint tasks uh and duty to our society already now right today it is important to quickly carry out all the preparatory work that will precede the restoration, that is, the development of project documentation for filling out the state register today more than 500 communities have already submitted this information to the state register, it is necessary for all communities to be more actively involved in this work the verkhovna rada thank you, mr. speaker , the verkhovna rada passed the bill 71- 98 and we expect its entry into force will be accordingly adopted immediately, all by- laws, we are also ready for the government to do this quickly and we are starting the processes of recovery already according to the current legislation, to restore the critical infrastructure of hospitals, schools, kindergartens, water bodies, first of all, communities need design and estimate documentation , this is an important point and we must work on it very quickly now, our plan is based on the fact

that we are not just restoring the old, we have to build better than it was in principle what uh and our partners buildbackbetter also support the local authorities should also join the processes, we are sure of this and calls on the communities to be included in the proposals regarding the construction and reconstruction, in particular, of the energy of alternative sources, we will develop the energy sector according to the principle of decentralization, the government is open to cooperation, we are ready to work together, i believe that the 23rd year will be the beginning of the great path of reconstruction of ukraine, i am convinced of this thank you for your attention, last year was like russia carried out a full-scale tournament in the territory of ukraine from february 24, every region, every community turned into a fortress in a matter of hours when thousands of volunteers and activists stood up to

defend their city, district or region, we everyone united for the sake of victory, but it should not only be on the battlefield, the victory should also take place in the minds of people, when citizens rethink their responsibility and role in the processes of state formation, together with you, we should work today on building a new ideology of understanding how ukrainians will live in a safe environment . we are working on this experience right now when we renew the presence of all the bodies of the ministry of internal affairs in the territories liberated from the invaders . currently, the total area of ​​these territories is almost 20,000 square kilometers from kharkiv oblast to mykolaiv oblast, that is 668 settlements and hundreds of thousands of our citizens, the large-scale work includes several key aspects, first of all stabilization measures, which are carried out by the national police

and the national guard with the direct cooperation of the security service of ukraine, this is the detection of collaborators, saboteurs, the identification of victims of at the hands of the occupiers, it is difficult to imagine what our people experienced while under occupation , they lost a sense of security and confidence , even after liberation, they cannot live peaceful life due to constant shelling deep mines any step or movement can be fatal therefore the next key aspect of work in the de-occupied territories is operational and humanitarian demining along the operational path we are already working systematically including with the help of our international partners 30% of the country remains potentially dangerous with from the point of view of mine safety, first of all, we demine critical infrastructure objects for the fastest possible restoration of

the life system in populated areas premises of state authorities, social infrastructure and residential buildings, more in-depth humanitarian demining will last at least a decade, now it is necessary to work on programs for the ideological rehabilitation of our citizens, whom the invader picked up, and now and after the victory, it is necessary to pay special attention to the border regions , the land section of the border with russia currently remains temporarily uncontrolled by ukraine by the federation of 922 km, when we talk about the victims of a full-scale war, we can safely say that every person in our country has been affected by the hostilities, the endless shelling and the dogs of the enemy have affected everyone and especially the vulnerable

category . hunger, not having access to education and medical care, it is the children who should feel our support. the ministry of internal affairs continues to develop a number of projects aimed at creating a safe educational environment. this is effective protection and security management in educational institutions, the creation of security classes, the continuation of special prevention programs with school officers, the police, juveniles, and rescuers, the implementation of the safety educator project in every secondary education institution, we do everything possible, and sometimes more, to make these plans come true, the defense forces are relentlessly regaining control over ukrainian cities and towns and villages are fighting for our independence and restoring territorial integrity, these are our heroes who are becoming stronger and more powerful every day

they are professional, they are inferior to the occupiers, they hold their positions, they protect our sky, the russians see the essence of success at the front, their tactics are becoming more and more terrorist, they shell the regions, there are civilians, they destroy the infrastructure every week in ukraine, from missile and risk strikes, civilians die, despite all the life in professional voices continues with with the return of the ukrainian flag in the ancient territory, life is restored there and this process is one of the most difficult challenges that we are overcoming, we are fighting for the people for the people who lived and live in settlements that the enemy tried to invade, we have a huge responsibility to do everything to restore safe conditions there, these are our people, our land, and in conditions of war, our actions require effective , coordinated and quick solutions, the first experience for occupying the territory we received in 2014 , we know how work on the restoration