 Thank you for taking the time from what's a very busy time, obviously, to be with us. The schedule for today, you won't see much from me. I'm going to make just a very quick introduction to the ambassador of Ukraine, to Ireland, Ambassador Larisa Gorasko, who's going to give some opening remarks from here in a moment. Then I'll briefly introduce the Deputy Prime Minister. The Deputy Prime Minister will speak to us for about 20 minutes, and then there'll be time for questions and answers afterwards. But thank you again, everybody, for your time and for your diligence and for your patience, indeed, Ambassador Gorasko. Good afternoon, everybody. I am privileged to stand before you today this important event organized by the Institute of International and European Affairs. And before the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Olhas Defanisina delivers a keynote address on the topic of post-invasion prospects for peace and integration. Before we delve into the details of Ukrainians, Ukraine's past toward peace and the new integration, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Ireland for its unwavering advocacy of Ukraine's European aspirations. From the outset of the invasion, Ireland has stood firmly by our side, condemning the Russian aggression and affirming its commitment to Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity. Your government, parliament, and the civil society have consistently advocated for Ukraine's EU membership, emphasizing the importance of peace, stability, and democracy in Europe. Ireland's support has helped amplify our voice within the European Union. This year, Ireland celebrates the 50th anniversary of its EU membership. Your journey toward EU membership stands as a shining example of the transformative power of European integration. Since joining the European Union, Ireland has experienced remarkable benefits across various sectors of society. The Irish economy has thrived creating jobs and fostering economic growth, investment and trade opportunities have flourished, opening your horizons for businesses. Ireland's voice on the global stage has grown stronger and its citizens have enjoyed enhanced mobility and educational opportunities across the EU. These remarkable achievements serve as a beacon of hope for Ukraine as we fight for our European future. Furthermore, Ireland's expertise and lessons learned from its EU accession process offer valuable insights for Ukraine. Your nation's successful integration journey can guide us as we navigate the complexities of post-invasion reconstruction and our path to the full EU membership. I am happy that today, Europe is united as never before in its support for Ukraine. Russia wages this war not only against Ukraine, it is also a war against democratic and European values, the European energy sector and the European economy. It is a war against the future of Europe, a struggle of autocracy against democracy. Ukraine is literally at the forefront of this battle. It pays the ultimate price and has proven its rightful place among the European family of nations within the European Union. I am grateful to the IIA for organizing this event to foster productive discussion in favour of Ukraine's full EU membership. I warmly welcome the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine, Ola Stifanishina, whose keynote address will shed light on the post-invasion prospects for peace and our unwavering commitment to EU integration. Thank you so much. Thank you on the call, Deputy Prime Minister. Just a very quick note to introduce you and just to thank indeed the ambassadors team, Dimitrosha therein and Daria from the from the Deputy Prime Minister's team for helping with organizing this event. August Stifanishina has been a Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic integration of Ukraine since June 2020. In this role, Deputy Prime Minister Stifanishina is tasked with overseeing Ukrainian integration into the EU and NATO, as well as coordination of gender equality policies in the Green Deal. A lawyer by profession, Deputy Prime Minister Stifanishina started her career in the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine, where she worked on the reforms that led to granting Ukraine the visa-free regime within the EU and took part in negotiations on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement. From 2017 to 2019, she served as Director-General to the Government Office for Coordination of European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine. And in 2022, the Deputy Prime Minister led Ukraine's EU membership bid that resulted in granting EU candidate status to Ukraine. She's a member of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine and chairs Ukraine's Commission for Equal Rights for Women and Men. It's an enormous privilege, Deputy Prime Minister, and the floor is yours for the next 20 minutes. Thank you. Thank you so much. And addressing the distinguished audience today, I want to say my words of gratitude not only to the Institute of International and European Affairs, but generally to the Ireland's nation and people and your strong stand for Ukraine, for Ukrainians, for Ukrainians who has been forced to escape the war and find their shelter in territory of Ireland. But also we commend on the personal leadership of your government and your parliament to step up with the decision for Ukraine to become a member of the European Union. This was a tough time, a year ago, only three months following the beginning of the full-scale war. And basically it was not that obvious that we would have to stand together and we will be backed up by the unity of EU nations to stand with Ukraine. And the strong stand for Ukraine of Ireland has been a game changer in decisions which have been taken on 23rd of February and in March over the summit in Versailles that Ukraine will become a member of European Union. But now 480 plus days, we are still in the war of aggression against Ukraine, which is one year and three months. We have demonstrated the whole world that any declaration of military goals and intentions of the Russian Federation is never to come true and will be failed to implement it and never be materialized. We remain united in our goal to victory. Ukrainian defenders continue fighting against Russian invaders, pushing them from the temporally occupied territories. Some segments of the front line, we are already conductive elements of the counter-offensive actions. Over the past few days, several settlements were already deoccupied. So although we are able to operate as a government in our offices, the war is still raging on. It's an actual battlefield in the center of Europe. It's an actual atrocities and an enormous and endless source of war crimes being committed for year and three months on the Ukrainian soil, which is the center of Europe. We, one year and three months, we continue to stay united. We continue being supported by the pro-Ukrainian, pro-European, pro-democratic and pro-peaceful coalition. We are grateful for the decisions taken to support the peace formula proposed by President Zelensky of his 10 points. We have seen an enhanced and more coordinated military support for Ukraine. We are at the edge of additional ways of decisions taken to provide Ukraine with over the fighter jets. But we should not forget that at this moment the war is far beyond the front line. It's also the war against civilian population. It's the war of genocide. It's the war launched by a country leader of which has been subjected to a rest war and by international court, criminal court, because of the forceful abduction of Ukrainian children, forceful displacement of them to the territory of the Russian Federation. This is the war against people and Ukrainians. One year and three months, nothing has led to undermining our unity and stand for the victory, our resolve. It's very important to understand that any politicians who would have to take a decision from the country which is not in war have to understand that our resolve is never evaporating until the end of the war. The very recent act of massive ecocide was conducted by Russian Federation by executing the explosion of the Kachovska gas. I want to recollect in our memories that even back in May of 2023, we were clearly messaging that Kachovska gas has been severely mined. We see now the accounts of this massive exploding and these outcomes will only grow because the water is growing lower. We now identify those people who didn't manage to be survived, who has drowned in the water. We have a massive consequences for the environmental situation and following the outflow of the water, we see a huge amount of the territories which have been affected with the massive outflow of elements of fauna, the fish, which were simply now lying on the streets of those cities and residential areas. We are now trying to tackle the massive epidemiological consequences of this time. Of course, it affects access to water. We have the shortages in water supplies for those areas on the south of Ukraine. At this stage, we have just confirmed by our military intelligence information that basically the cooling mechanism of the Parisian nuclear power plant has been mined by Russian Federation and the Russian Armed Forces who are getting control over the Parisian nuclear power plant. With the absence of water in Kachovska gas, the disaster with the cooling system of the Parisian nuclear power plant could have an extremely massive consequences from the territory of Ukraine spreading throughout the whole Europe. In that regard, we should understand that this disaster has no borders and will have prolonged aftermath as Ukraine will not be able to produce food from the region for a pretty long time. This has been the biggest source of agriculture production in Ukraine, including the harvest lost this year already. It will be leading to even greater shortages of food in the long-term perspective. And recently, you must have seen that the big delegation from the African leaders has been in Ukraine. And this has been the issue of discussion because it will definitely affect the functioning of the green corridor and the scope of procurement. And we can provide these regions which are also affected by the war started by Russian Federation. And now in this circumstances also by a massive ecocide conducted by Russian Federation as well. So we should not keep our focus out of this disaster and catastrophe, because every day, every week we get new and new consequences which would only be named additionally and additionally following the outflow of the water. And in that regard, we understand that it's not only that the war goes beyond the borders of Ukraine from the environmental point of view. It's beyond the borders of Ukraine from the existential point of view. We have to understand that the ending of this war, the victory of Ukraine, would automatically mean the restoration of the security environment in Europe and the restoration of European secure and forming new security architecture with the more resilient institutions, with the more resilient planning, and with more resolve to take the leadership in taking actions to defend the values, but not only following the values we're protecting right now. At this point, we also understand that not last important front is the front of transformations. We understand that we would not have time to hesitate after the war is over. We have to prepare ourselves for the victory now, as the government and the parliament are not the ones standing with the gun on the front line. Our armor and ammunition is the politics and the decisions that we can take to make victory closer. And in that regard, I want just to start by informing you that the decision taken by Ireland to support Ukraine's membership in European Union to grant Ukraine the candidate status was not taken in vain. We have done everything possible to make sure that your political will, your investment into leadership and decision process has been shown by commitment of Ukraine has been proven by determination of reforms and will be materialized in the hopefully decisions to start the accession talks. Over this year, we managed to unite our efforts and pass nearly 100 elements of legislation aligning us with the rules of a single market. As basically, EU has been the major source of exporting with all the borders, including the Black Sea routes blocked. We have also accelerated our efforts in terms of political reforms and transformations. We have completed the formation of all the judicial corps and will start the massive attestation of judges. We have nominated and selected through a transparent procedures the leaders of all the anti-corruption institutions who show already the first results of their operation. And we launched a massive competition, legislations setting up the massive competition for the judges of the constitutional court. And as you might have followed, if you're following Ukraine's reform agenda, we have received a opinion of the Venice Commission basically calling Ukraine to triple its efforts to tackle wasted interests in politics and media in economy of Ukraine. So we will be taking it as a commitment on our side and we will be doing our best to make sure that by the end of the year, we are ending up with the political transformations and start actual implementation and get ourselves prepared for the accession talks. In that regard, it's very important that basically throughout the war, throughout the constant flow of information and data about massive atrocity, about every night missile attacks to the cities of Ukraine and murdered Ukrainians, children, civilians around Ukraine. We have taken our religion to survive despite of everything. We are staying operational and fully committed to do our work 24-7. We have never stopped to run the government and you have seen it, you see it by even a number of accomplishments I've managed to show you here. And we of course count on geopolitical leadership because now with the successes on the battlefield, we should be prepared for geopolitical decisions taken to set in stone the security in Europe by a stronger role of European Union in European security architecture, common defense procurement, common defense planning, but also on making a clear message towards Ukraine's future in NATO. This decision should be politically taken now to make sure that no signals of weakness are sent to Russian Federation. Thank you so much. We'll be happy to participate in the discussion and also answer your questions.