Provision of the army, integration into the EU and NATO, energy sector, and recovery are among the core priorities and directions Ukraine will pursue in 2023. The Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmyhal announced in a statement during a Government meeting on January 3.

"We are all continuously working to make this year the year of our victory. We have a clear understanding of how to counteract the enemy, how to secure the front and hold the rear starting this year. We must remain united and continue to act as one. Therefore, today I will announce the government's priorities and the main directions along which we will move forward in 2023, with the key ones announced by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his annual address," stressed Denys Shmyhal.

According to the Prime Minister, the Government's priorities for 2023 are as follows:

1. Support of the army, maintaining defense and security.

2. Integration of Ukraine into the EU and NATO.

3. Energy front.

4. Restoration of Ukraine.

5. Macrofinancial stability and business support programs.

6. Veteran policy.

7. Education.

8. Continuation of decentralization reform.

9. Introduction of mandatory pension accumulation, and reform of the stock and capital markets.

10. Reform of state property management and public administration reform.

Denys Shmyhal stressed that 2023 will be the year of Ukraine's victory: "We are doing everything possible for this purpose. We help the Armed Forces, on whose shoulders our freedom rests and whose hands will forge our victory."