Zelenskyy instructed to prepare the annual address to the Verkhovna Rada

Zelenskyy instructed to prepare the annual address to the Verkhovna Rada

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has instructed to prepare the annual address of the head of state to the Verkhovna Rada by December 1. For this purpose, he ordered the creation of a special working group and approved its composition.

This is stated in the Decree of the President No. 115/2025-rp.

The responsibility for preparing the document has been assigned to the Head of the Office of the President, Andriy Yermak, who leads the working group. Methodological and scientific support for the process has been entrusted to the Director of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, Oleksandr Bohomolov, appointed as the deputy head of the group.

Zelenskyy has authorized Yermak to adjust the personal composition of the group if necessary and to involve representatives of executive authorities, scientific institutions, public organizations, as well as Ukrainian and foreign scholars and independent experts in the work.

The working group is to determine the structure and schedule for preparing the draft address, as well as the content of the necessary materials, within a month. By December 1, 2025, the group must complete its work and submit the document for consideration.

The working group also includes several deputy heads of the Office of the President — Iryna Vereshchuk, Ihor Zhovkva, Olena Kovalska, Viktor Mykytas, Iryna Mudra, Pavlo Palisa, and Oleh Tatarov, as well as the Head of the State Administration of Affairs, Ihor Lysyi.

Funding for the expenses related to the preparation of the draft has been assigned to the State Administration of Affairs.

The order was signed by Volodymyr Zelenskyy on September 17, 2025.