According to the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, if partners do not help Ukraine now, they will help later, but “in extreme conditions.”
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba hopes that the European Union will approve the transfer of 50 million euros to Kyiv, which could not be approved in December due to a Hungarian veto. He said this in an interview with the Spanish El Pais.
According to the foreign policy chief, support for Kyiv is also support for democracy, and it is necessary to revive among the allies the sense of urgency that was present in the first year of the Russian invasion, because “Ukraine should be a matter of unity, not division.”
“We will continue to fight with the resources at our disposal, because democracy, security and prosperity of the world are at stake. For Ukraine, its very existence as a nation is at stake,” Kuleba emphasized.
He also noted that Ukraine will continue to resist the armed aggression of the Russian Federation, even if support from Western countries ends.
“Then it will be necessary to restore assistance, because there will be a very strong public reaction in support of Ukraine. And the same politicians who decided to refuse this support will decide to provide it, but in extreme conditions. Thus, even from a rational point of view, from a purely realistic policy, it makes more sense to provide assistance now to avoid a crisis in the future,” Kuleba emphasized.
EU assistance to Ukraine – latest news
In December, at the European Union summit, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban vetoed the allocation of €50 billion to Ukraine from the EU.
Subsequently, it became known that the European Commission was preparing an alternative aid package for Ukraine.
