“Ukraine needs more than 12,000 tons of humanitarian aid every day. At the moment, international efforts contribute only 3,000 tons, less than 25% of the Ukrainian needs. More funds for food, medicine, hygiene products and other equipment are urgently needed and I hope that the conference will help us mobilize them,” said Poland’s Prime Minister hopefully. Mateusz Morawiekiat the beginning of the International Donor Conference for Ukraine organized together with Sweden. The result, the Prime Minister of Sweden welcomed, Magdalena Andersonhas exceeded all “expectations” with a collection of more than 6,000 million euros.
“While Russia brings death, the countries of the free world bring aid,” Morawiecki claimed with satisfaction at the end of a meeting in which heads of government such as the Finnish sanna marinthe President of the European Council, Charles Michaelthe president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, as well as representatives of the United Nations. All of them have closed ranks with the Ukrainian prime minister, denis schmyhalpresent at the meeting, and with the president Volodymyr Zelenskywhich has joined by videoconference.
Since Russia launched the war on February 24, Ukraine has received more than $12 billion in financial assistance of its international partners for the gun purchase Y humanitarian aid4,000 million mobilized by the European Union in the form of economic and financial assistance, to which 3,500 million are added to support the Member States that host Ukrainian refugees and another 1,800 million to alleviate the needs of internally displaced persons.
“It is not safe enough and that is why we are committing another 200 million to (help) internally displaced people,” announced the president of the European Commission in the framework of the conference that has led to reopening the portfolio to continue financing Ukraine. France, for example, will increase its contribution to humanitarian aid to Ukraine by more than 280 million euros, Poland will contribute another 100 million, Finland another 70 million, while Sweden will contribute 23 million.
Zelensky: “We are ready”
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The Ukrainian government has once again asked for weapons so that its country can defend itself, more sanctions against Russia to punish the aggressor, funding to continue helping the Ukrainian people and the country’s integration into the European Union. “We need enough financial resources so that Ukrainian men and women receive everything they need while the war continues,” she said. He has also announced the launch of a fundraising platform and from which to make donations, which will be audited by the consulting firm Deloitte, and has claimed a reconstruction plan By the time the war is over, what should it be?analogous to the Marshall plan” to achieve stability throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
Zelensky has once again taken advantage of the presence of European leaders to insist that Ukraine needs to move quickly towards the European Union and receive the “candidate country status” which must already be granted “under conditions of war and under a special abbreviated procedure to obtain accession”, he claimed, emphasizing that the war waged by Vladimir Putin against his country was planned to deal a blow to the united Europe. “Unification will be a powerful answer. That is why Ukraine’s membership in the European Union must be an absolute reality, not just promises or prospects, but practical steps. We are ready and they know it,” he said.