Ukrainian business together with the state provides over 40 % of weapons to protect our independence - a presidential speech at the State and Business Forum and Business

Even in such harsh conditions, Ukraine can rely on its entrepreneurs - on our domestic, Ukrainian production, our Ukrainian logistics, our Ukrainian services in all areas - from safety to everyday life of people - on Ukrainian developments and investments. All this is a merit and yours - there are many founders and many business executives in the hall today - as well as all your teams - all your colleagues, workers, workers, which in the end - millions of Ukrainians.

Of course, now the main priority is the defense of the state. Ukrainian business, together with the state, provides more than 40 % of weapons to protect our country, our independence. Ukrainian innovations, and many of them, are innovative business solutions that provide us with the ability to technologically respond to the challenges of a full -scale war and what the enemy does.

Thanks to Ukrainian entrepreneurship and all those conditions that we created as a state, a new branch of our domestic production emerged, which became one of the leading ones in the world, and this is the production of drones of different types. Hundreds of companies are in one way or another involved in the production of weapons now. However, we are standing not only through weapons. I want to thank every company that works to ensure the lives of our people and ensure our army.

Everything: from mail and food and fuel to modern communication systems and financial services - everything in Ukraine works, strives for growth and seeks solutions that can provide us with more power, more opportunities and, as a result of growth - more taxes. We are aware in the country that economic growth should fill the budget, not just pressure, not just squeezing funds from the economy, and good decisions are not without good teams that generate ideas and ensure decisions.

That is why the dialogue of the state with all the public forces, and in particular with entrepreneurs is needed. That is why we work in the format of the Council - entrepreneurs. That is why we store and expand state support programs for Ukrainian business and Ukrainian production.

For the first time in the history of our country, we will carry out systematic work with partner countries for investment in production in Ukraine-billions of dollars of investments come into our production, as I said, weapons, equipment, equipment. We have now gone with a good meeting with the Seven Group, our work with partners from the European Union is successful, many bilateral results with all key countries in the world.

Our international work and partners' decisions on long -term support programs of Ukraine say that the world believes in us, the world believes in Ukraine. And this is important for the protection of Ukraine, for our army, for all our people, and in particular for business. We work with partners to support all forms of sustainability in Ukraine - from energy to providing social payments, and therefore - the ability of our people to buy Ukrainian goods and services.

The policy of supporting Ukrainian entrepreneurship "made in Ukraine" is also extremely effective. It is a set of quite specific programs - grants, available loans, demand support programs, assistance in exiting foreign markets.  More than 70,000 businesses and entrepreneurs have used our state programs. Today, our officials will present new steps, programs that are already preparing: from increasing grants, expanding localization in purchases to the reform of labor law.

I have also instructed to prepare a long-term moratorium on business checking-so as to protect your business from any pressure of unscrupulous people in different positions. I ask the first vicemit Yulia Sviridenko about all this today to tell the audience in detail. We continue the work of the Council the state - business, and it is suggested that the council is wider, and I ask everyone very much and everyone who is involved in its work: please be as active as possible.