Oleksiy Kuleba, Vice Prime Minister for Recovery and Minister of Development of Communities and Territories of Ukraine, met with President of the Czech Republic Petr Pavel during his working visit to Odesa. The conversation focused on the key issues of navigation safety, the restoration of Ukraine and community development.
Over the three years of the full-scale invasion, the Czech Republic has provided $900 million in support to Ukraine, ranging from humanitarian programmes to military equipment.
‘We met in the city of Odesa, which is being terrorised by Russia every night. It was during our meeting that Russia launched three groups of shaheds on the city. The entire civilised world must see Russia’s crimes against Ukraine.
Since the summer of 2023 alone, Russia has fired more than 450 missiles at Ukraine’s port infrastructure, but today we remain the guarantor of global food security. Since the start of the Ukrainian corridor, our ports have transported 110 million tonnes of cargo.
The Czech Republic is one of the leaders among the countries that systematically help Ukraine. In particular, the Neptune anti-ship systems provided to us by the Czech Republic, based on Czech Tatra vehicles, have made a great contribution to our maritime security.
We are grateful to the Czech Republic and personally to President Petr Pavel for their unwavering support of Ukraine in this difficult time. Together we will overcome all difficulties and restore a just peace,’ said Oleksiy Kuleba.
The Minister also noted that the Czech Republic remains a reliable partner of Ukraine in the restoration of communities and regions.
The country has taken patronage of the Dnipro region, where it is renovating water treatment plants, supplying generators, medical equipment, evacuation buses, rebuilding schools and hospitals. In Kyiv region, it is implementing a large-scale project to modernise the regional children’s hospital for more than €10 million, and other similar projects in Mykolaiv, Kharkiv, Kherson, and Lviv regions.
Oleksiy Kuleba and Petr Pavel agreed to expand humanitarian aid to the affected regions, including providing temporary housing for those who lost their homes and support for medical facilities. Together with the heads of Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regional administrations, they also discussed further direct support for the regions.
