President Volodymyr Zelensky outlined Ukraine’s core diplomatic priorities ahead of the upcoming NATO summit in Ankara, placing air defense, energy resilience, European integration and sustained pressure on Russia at the center of Kyiv’s agenda. In his evening address, the president announced that Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko had returned to Kyiv following the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk, where the Ukrainian delegation secured 160 agreements worth more than €10 billion.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. €10B in recovery agreements The new agreements primarily target energy infrastructure, reconstruction and the resilience of Ukraine’s regions and communities, according to Zelensky. “This is fundamental,” the president stressed, adding that Ukraine must use the summer months to implement as many of these projects as possible. The Gdańsk agreements are expected to support broader national efforts to strengthen local communities and restore critical infrastructure ahead of the winter. European diplomatic push June and July will be pivotal months for high-level meetings and communication with Kyiv’s international partners, Zelensky noted. “Everything must produce results,” he stressed. The president highlighted Cyprus’s current presidency of the European Union and Ireland’s upcoming tenure as important windows for Ukraine’s EU accession path. Kyiv is specifically pushing for tangible progress on EU membership negotiation clusters.