The prime minister hosted the wife of Ukraine’s head of state, Olena Zelenska, in São Bento, and reiterated Portugal’s “firm commitment” to support Ukraine and the “huge” challenges it faces.
This point of view was conveyed by António Costa on his Twitter account, after meeting Olena Zelenska, wife of the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky.
“I reiterate Portugal’s determined commitment to support Ukraine and our commitment to find solutions to the enormous challenges the country faces,” wrote the leader of the Portuguese executive.
On Tuesday, the wife of the Ukrainian president, Olena Zelenska, spoke at the opening session of the web summit in Lisbon, when she accused Russia of putting technology “at the service of terror” and asked for help from the innovation sector.
“Russia is putting technology at the service of terror and what we are seeing today is the result of using that technology,” he said, adding that Russian technology experts who previously worked in the private sector are now working together in the war against Ukraine.
Olena Zelenska later argued that “technology should be used to save and help people, not to destroy”.
“You are the force that moves the world,” he said, addressing the audience at the Web Summit’s main venue, which was mostly made up of business people.
The Portuguese Prime Minister was in Kiev on 21 May, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and expressed Portugal’s readiness to participate in a program to rebuild Ukrainian schools and kindergartens, or to rebuild a to support the Ukrainian designated territory. authorities.
Among the options for reconstruction, the leader of the Portuguese executive expressed a preference for the one that refers to schools and kindergartens, saying that the Portuguese state has recent experience in implementing these programs for the modernization of educational institutions.
In Kiev, at the end of a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister, Denys Shmyhal, António Costa signed an agreement to provide EUR 250 million in financial support to Ukraine.
Source: DN
