Dear colleagues, fellow Ukrainians!

We are starting a regular meeting of the Government!

The security and defence of our country is the main task for the Government and the state.

In order to ensure its defence capability, Ukraine needs very substantial resources and financial stability.

In the first 9 months of this year, the general fund of the state budget received over UAH 1.5 trillion.

We are grateful to conscientious taxpayers – citizens and businesses – for every hryvnia paid. It is with these funds that the state finances defence.

At the same time, over the same period, we spent more than UAH 2.3 trillion from the general fund of the state budget. About 58% of this amount was spent on the army.

Today, the common task of all branches of government is to find additional resources to cover military expenditures in 2025.

These are necessary decisions. We are talking about the survival of the state, our ability to resist the aggressor, to withstand, to win, and to achieve a just peace.

Revenues from Ukrainian exports are one of the main sources of our financial stability.

In 2022 and the first half of 2023, logistics was one of the main economic challenges for the state.

Today we can say that this challenge has been overcome to the extent possible in the context of such a full-scale war.

In January-September 2024, Ukrainian exports totalled almost 100 million tonnes. This is 36% more than last year. That is, in 9 months we exported as much as in the whole of last year.

In monetary terms, this is USD 28.9 billion.

This became possible thanks to the functioning of the Black Sea maritime corridor, thanks to the state support of Ukrainian exporters, thanks to the diligent work of entrepreneurs in export-oriented sectors of the economy.

Traditionally, the agricultural sector has been a leader in exports.

Ukraine is ready to continue to serve as one of the key guarantors of global food security.

Almost 57 million tonnes of new grain, oilseeds and sugar beet have already been harvested.

Ukraine grows much more than it can consume. That is why we help countries on different continents.

At the same time, russia continues to use food as an element of aggression. This year, the enemy has smuggled more than 180,000 tonnes of stolen Ukrainian grain through the port of Mariupol alone.

The temporarily occupied territories are being robbed in order to finance the war of aggression with the stolen money.

Undoubtedly, russian economic terror will be one of the areas of work of the special tribunal for the crime of russian aggression against Ukraine.

So will energy terror against our country.

Despite further attempts by the enemy to damage our energy facilities, the situation in the energy system is stable and balanced today.

The energy sector remains an area of our priority attention. The Government and power engineers continue to restore, repair and develop decentralised generation around the clock.

Today, we are making a decision that will allow us to reallocate funds under the loan from the European Investment Bank to modernise our substations.

We will be able to allocate an additional EUR 86 million for the construction of protection systems around energy facilities, which will reduce the risks of russian terrorist attacks.

We are also continuing to make decisions for our economic recovery.

We are developing a network of industrial parks.

Today we are creating two more such sites in Lviv and Mykolaiv regions. In total, they will be able to create 1,800 new jobs.

This will bring the total number of industrial parks registered in Ukraine to 95.

I sincerely thank all those who are defending the country against the enemy, who are strengthening the Ukrainian home front and helping the army, who are taking care of the safety of Ukrainians in towns and villages, who are working in critical infrastructure.

Glory to Ukraine!