Overview

• President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska hosted guests in Sofia Square, greeting Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President’s Special Envoy Keith Kellogg.
• Zelensky said defense ministers from Sweden, Denmark, Romania, Lithuania, and Canada had arrived in Ukraine, along with the United Kingdom’s minister for veterans.
• State honors were presented to foreign supporters, including the Order of Merit, First Class, to Keith Kellogg and Sweden’s Pål Jonson, and the Order of Merit, Second Class, to Germany’s ambassador Martin Jäger.
• European institutions marked the occasion in Brussels, with the European Commission flying Ukraine’s flag and a 30‑meter banner unfurled outside the European Parliament.
• Additional tributes included Latvia’s foreign ministry facade lit in blue and yellow and New Delhi’s Qutub Minar illuminated in Ukraine’s colors.