The president congratulated the military on the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and thanked them for protecting the state for more than a thousand days. Zelensky stressed that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are the most reliable guarantor of the country's security.

President Volodymyr Zelensky congratulated the Ukrainian military on the day of the Armed Forces and noted that thanks to them, the front and Ukraine are being held together, reports UNN.

"You have been doing this (defending your hometown, Street, Ukraine – ed.) for more than a thousand days, taking up arms, the fate of our country and holding it firmly, steadfastly. When it's hard, when it's very hot, when it's unbearably cold day and night, and you keep the front, keep the freedom. You hold on yourself and thanks to you, everyone holds on. Ukraine is holding up, thanks to you, a Ukrainian soldier," Zelensky said.

Zelensky expressed gratitude to all military personnel.

"Dear soldiers, gratitude and respect from the entire Ukrainian people to each of you, to each of you who writes a new history of independent Ukraine with blood, tears, and fire. He writes everywhere, in Kharkiv, Sumy and Zaporizhia, and in the Kherson region. In such areas as Kurakhovsky, Pokrovsky, Kupyansky. In all the hottest areas of Ukraine where Ukraine is fighting," Zelensky said.

The president stressed that today Ukraine understands for sure that the real, most reliable guarantor of security is the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

"Yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the signing of the Budapest Memorandum. Today we definitely understand that the real, first, strangest, most reliable guarantor of our security is the Armed Forces of Ukraine," Zelensky stressed.

In addition, Zelensky awarded state awards to the military and Heroes of Ukraine who gave their lives for the country.

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Today, December 6, for the third year in a row, in the conditions of brutal counteraction to Russian aggression, all Ukrainians celebrate the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It was on the sixth of December 1991 that the law on the Armed Forces of Ukraine was adopted. Two years later, the Verkhovna Rada established the day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine by its resolution.

Commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Alexander Syrsky held a meeting on the results of the army's activities in November 2024. Based on its results, the commander-in-chief determined the tasks of continuing the creation of combat reserves and introducing innovative military technologies.