Published November 25,2023
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Ukraine wants extra air defences to guard its grain export routes in addition to areas bordering Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated on Saturday, as he addressed a world summit on meals safety in Kyiv.
“There is a deficit of air defence – that is no secret,” Zelenskiy instructed the Grain from Ukraine summit, which was attended by senior officers from European nations, together with Swiss President Alain Berset and Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte.
Zelenskiy was talking after Russia attacked Ukraine with 75 drones in a single day, the largest drone assault of the conflict. The joint press convention of the three leaders was reduce quick by one other air raid siren.
Zelenskiy stated Ukraine can be equipped by its overseas companions with vessels to accompany convoys of cargo ships from Ukraine’s ports to ensure their safety.
“I have agreements with several countries about powerful accompaniment of convoys by Ukrainians, but using (foreign) equipment,” he stated.
Separately, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pledged help in a letter to Zelenskiy that she shared on social media platform X, saying the Commission would make out there 50 million euros for “quick repairs and upgrades of infrastructure in Ukraine’s ports.”
The Ukrainian president stated Kyiv hoped to unravel its air defence scarcity by way of new provides from companions and growing its personal manufacturing capability, one thing on which he stated there had been progress.
“As of today, I can’t say details what we are making and where, but there is progress,” he stated.
Ukraine, a significant exporter of grain, has been exporting grain by way of unilateral corridors by way of the Black sea, after Russia withdrew in July from a UN-brokered deal to permit grain ships by way of its blockade.
Ukraine’s present Black sea grain export corridors all begin from ports in Ukraine’s southern area of Odesa.
“There are certain air defence systems… we are asking for them,” Zelenskiy stated. “We’ve already got an answer when those systems will start to guard that region. Because there, both the corridor and the people are important.”
Asked concerning the protests by Polish and Slovak truckers which have blocked a lot of Ukraine’s road-based cargo provide in latest days, Zelenskiy blamed the issue on the interior politics of these nations.
“I believe that there are difficulties on the border first and foremost because of certain political steps by our neighbours,” he instructed a press convention after the summit.
Zelenskiy stated he was assured the difficulty can be solved if Ukraine’s neighbours got “a bit of time” to take care of the dispute.
Source: www.anews.com.tr