President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky instructed the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal to prepare a new national defense plan taking into account the course of hostilities and updated priorities. The head of state announced this in Telegram based on the results of the minister's report.

"Several key elements. It is time to change the basic documents on the defense of Ukraine, in particular the defense plan of our state," he noted.

According to the president, the course of hostilities has demonstrated what should become renewed priorities.

"We agreed that Denys would prepare detailed proposals for changes and submit them to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for approval," Zelensky noted.

He also emphasized that the government and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine are fully providing the necessary funding for the purchase of drones for combat brigades, in particular, and yesterday financed another monthly tranche of the subvention for combat brigades in the amount of UAH 4.3 billion.

"Also, an additional UAH 8 billion was allocated to finance the"Drone Line," the head of state added.

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As UNIAN reported, head of the Ukrainian delegation , who left for the United States, Rustem Umerov was appointed Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine.

The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kyrylo Budanov, is also part of the delegation, and therefore may participate in certain negotiations. New secret directives for the Ukrainian delegation have also been approved.

At the same time, Politico wrote that The US wants to conclude a peace agreement to providing security guarantees to Ukraine. According to the publication's sources, this condition was emphasized in American proposals to Kyiv over the past week.

However, State Department spokesman Tommy Pigott noted that security guarantees must be part of any peace agreement. And the White House assured that any final peace plan would include security guarantees for Ukraine.