On the occasion of World Book and Copyright Day, which is celebrated on April 23, First Lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska spoke about the development of her "Ukrainian Bookshelf" project, which includes the transfer of Ukrainian publications to the world's leading libraries. The books were received by the National Library of Armenia, the Library of the Foreign Policy Community of Indonesia, the Central Library of the Capital Library of Hungary, the Maribor Library of Slovenia, the Library of the Municipal Museum of Cyprus, and the City Library of Linköping in Sweden. 

In total, Ukrainian bookshelves under the patronage of the First Lady and with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ukrainian Book Institute have already opened in 37 countries: Austria, Türkiye, Lithuania, Slovakia, Sweden, the Czech Republic, France, the Netherlands, Greece, Latvia, Finland, Jordan, Croatia, Lebanon, Japan, Belgium, Albania, Republic of Korea, Poland, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Norway, Moldova, Qatar, Slovenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Portugal, South Africa, Cyprus, UAE, Namibia, North Macedonia, Hungary, Indonesia and Armenia. 170 shelves have 44,000 publications.