The diplomatic heads of the Baltic and Nordic countries (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Iceland, Finland, Norway and Sweden) are in Kiev to discuss future aid to Ukraine, Latvia’s foreign minister Edgars Rinkevics said Monday.
“Foreign ministers from the Baltic and Scandinavian countries are in Kiev to meet senior Ukrainian officials. This is the largest group of ministers to visit Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian aggression. Ukraine,” Rinkevics wrote on Twitter, quoted by the Spanish news agency EFE.
In another message, Edgars Rinkevics stressed that the seven ministers in Kiev are “in total solidarity with Ukraine”, stating that he remains convinced that the country “will win” despite Russian aggression.
“Despite the rain of bombs and barbaric brutality of Russia, Ukraine will win,” he stressed.
Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year, triggering a war that plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
The Russian invasion – justified by the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, with the need to “denazify” and demilitarize Ukraine for Russian security – was condemned by the international community at large, which responded by sending arms to Ukraine and to impose on Russia political and economic sanctions.
The UN presented 6,595 dead civilians and 10,189 wounded as confirmed since the start of the war, underlining that these numbers are well below the real ones.
Source: DN
