Last year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy launched the "Made in Ukraine" policy, which has since grown into a comprehensive infrastructure of support programs for manufacturers and a community of businesses creating Ukrainian products, nurturing them, investing in development despite the war, and opening new factories and plants.

Last winter, I visited a factory in Dnipro that produces household goods. The owner said, "In a year, I will invite you to our new tea production facility. We are starting its construction, and not even the war will stop me." A year has passed, and he kept his word. Hundreds of other entrepreneurs have done the same—building, restoring, and expanding production despite the war.

Supporting such people is the least we can do as a state, primarily because our economic stability depends on them. Only through the taxes and fees paid by Ukrainian businesses can we finance the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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