Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who arrived in Brussels for an emergency summit of EU leaders on defense issues, thanked European leaders for their support, The Guardian reports.

“It’s great we are not alone," Zelenskyy said.

On his arrival to the summit, Zelenskyy thanked European leaders for their “strong support” which he says he has seen “from the very beginning of the war and … during all this period and last week, you stay[ed] with us.”

"We are very thankful that we are not alone. And these are not just words. We feel it. It’s very important you [sent] a strong signal to Ukrainian people, to Ukrainian warriors, to civilians, to all our families. And it’s great that we are not alone," the Ukrainian president said.

The EU leaders’ emergency summit on defense and Ukraine is in progress Thursday in Brussels.