The Spanish politician, Josep Borrell, serving as High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, after he unannounced visited to Odesa, one of my favourite towns, wrote on Twitter.
“Instead, it marks the news as a frequent target of Putin’s war.”
He afterwards went to the capital, Kyiv, were he reminded Ukraine that EU support for Ukraine has reached 85 billion euros. This includes 25 billion euros in military aid and 60 billion euros in humanitarian aid, Borrell said during his visit to Kyiv.
On the 2nd of October foreign ministers of the European Union countries were convening in Kyiv for the first-ever meeting of all 27 member states outside the EU, the bloc’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell wrote on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter:
“We are convening a historic meeting of EU Foreign Ministers here in Ukraine, candidate country and future member of the EU.”
In a joint press conference with Borrell, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba welcomed the EU officials convening for the Foreign Affairs Council session. He told reporters that the fact that the EU foreign ministers were meeting in Kyiv
“is a message of the unfettered support that the European Union is extending for Ukraine.”
Zelensky emphasised that the fact that the meeting was taking place in Ukraine was a vital symbol of European solidarity, and said that a Ukrainian victory was a common cause for Europe as a whole.
“Russia has become an anti-European force that terrorises and tries to undermine all the foundations of a stable and peaceful life in Europe,”
he added.
The European Union has reached a consensus regarding Ukraine‘s membership in the bloc, which is “only a matter of time,” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said on Oct. 2, as reported by European Pravda.
On October 18 President Volodymyr Zelensky met Romanian Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu in Kyiv, discussing defence assistance and cooperation in grain transit. Earlier the Romanian prime minister had met his Ukrainian counterpart Denys Shmyhal, who confirmed what Klaus Iohannis, the Romanian president, had said in Bucharest on Oct. 10, that Romania is transiting up to 60% of all Ukrainian grain exports and said that Bucharest has become one of Ukraine’s leading trade partners.
Ukrainian specialists in the energy, water, transport, and academic sectors will undergo a training program with the British Army Royal Engineers to protect critical infrastructure from Russian attacks this winter, the U.K. Ministry of Defence said on Oct. 22.
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