“Thank you for your courageous visit, which is crucial in view of the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of my country,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, welcoming the French Foreign Minister
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna is in Odessa from today with the aim, as she announced, “to signal France’s support for the sovereignty of Ukraine, today as yesterday”. The French minister spent the night in Moldova yesterday and arrived in Ukraine with some delay due to the missile launch from the Russian side.
“Thank you for your courageous visit, which is crucial in view of the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of my country,” said Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, welcoming the French Foreign Minister.
According to a French diplomatic source, during the meeting, the military assistance needed by Ukraine will be assessed, which, as the same source said, has not expressed a request for the provision of French Leclerc tanks.
“For any army, having 10 different types of tanks in its forces creates problems,” the same source said, noting that the Ukrainians “wanted Leopard 2 tanks from the beginning” which Germany eventually promised to deliver.
The French minister is to visit a refugee center in Kherson that is operated by NGOs financially supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The minister is also expected to walk through the old city of Odessa, which was inscribed yesterday on the list of Unesco’s World Heritage Sites in danger. Finally, he will visit the facilities of CMA-CGM and Louis Dreyfus in the port of Odessa, two French groups involved in the export of Ukrainian grain, in the framework of the agreement reached last summer under the auspices of the United Nations.
Finally, the French minister is expected to leave by road for Chisinau, in order to meet the president of Moldova, Maya Sandu, while tomorrow Friday she will go to Romania to meet, among other things, with the head of state, Klaus Iohannis.
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