Slovenia will help Ukraine reconstruct Kharkiv, demine territories

"We face another important challenge: the demining of liberated territories. And today we had a substantive conversation about how Slovenia will send the equipment through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism needed for civilian demining in Ukraine," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said at a joint briefing with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Tanja Fajon in Kyiv, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

The minister also added that Slovenia would continue providing humanitarian aid and take an active part in the reconstruction of Ukraine. As noted, the first projects on Kharkiv are discussed within the framework of sister cities: the restoration of public transport and the reconstruction of the Kharkiv Institute of Prosthetics.

"If we look at the size of Slovenia, the size of the economy of Slovenia and compare it to the help that this country has provided to Ukraine, only then can we realize how much this country has done for us," Kuleba stressed.

As reported, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Slovenia Tanja Fajon arrived on a visit to Kyiv on Wednesday, July 27.

On February 24, 2022, the Russian Federation launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, continuing the armed aggression that has been ongoing since 2014. Russian troops shell and destroy key infrastructure facilities, massively fire on residential areas of Ukrainian cities and villages with the use of artillery, MLRS, and ballistic missiles.

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