Everyone understands that the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine is a strong organization with its own history and brotherhood. Your strength is the knowledge Ukraine gains about the enemy, about its plans, and about the overall situation around Ukraine. Your history is the defense of Ukraine and the role intelligence officers have played in the key battles of this war. And your brotherhood – all of us in Ukraine must always value the fact that Ukrainians have become true brothers-in-arms in this war. Today, I honored our warriors with state awards on the occasion of Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Day. Everyone has, in one way or another, used information gathered by military intelligence. In one way or another, our warriors from different branches of Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces have fought and continue to fight alongside one another – shoulder to shoulder. And that is how it must remain. Brotherhood within each branch of Ukraine’s Defense and Security Forces is part of what unites our entire society. Ukrainians win when they support one another. Thank you for this approach. May the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine always remain strong.

Today is Ukraine’s Military Intelligence Day. We thank everyone who is truly strengthening Ukraine’s defense in this war, providing our country with the intelligence it needs, and carrying out operations that prevent Russia from achieving its goals. The Defense Intelligence personnel, with their strength and professionalism, alongside all the other warriors of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, have defended Kyiv, liberated Snake Island, and conducted hundreds of other defensive operations that Ukraine needs – both on our territory and behind enemy lines. And we will remember all our intelligence officers who were killed while carrying out combat missions. We honor the memory of every fallen hero. And I thank everyone who has continued the mission of their fallen brothers and sisters-in-arms and works every day for Ukraine’s security and independence. Glory to Ukraine’s military intelligence! Glory to Ukraine!