THE Emmanuel Macron had a telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelensky and announced that France would send aid to Ukrainein order to deal with the consequences of blowing up the dam in Kherson.
“France condemns this heinous act which endangers the population,” the French president said in a post on Twitter after the telephone conversation he had with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. “I expressed to President Zelensky my solidarity with his people after the attack on the Kakhovka dam,” he added.
According to Elysee, the Crisis Management Center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs will immediately send to Ukraine a first cargo with ten tons of hygiene products, water filters and a portable tank.
Earlier, the Ukrainian president announced that he informed his French counterpart about “the environmental and humanitarian consequences of the Russian terrorist act” and referred to the “urgent needs” to deal with the disaster in the Kherson region.
Moscow and Kiev blame each other for the collapse of the hydroelectric dam on the Dnieper River, resulting in flooding of towns and villages on both the bank held by Russian forces and the bank that remains under Ukrainian control.
Zelensky said he had agreed with Macron to continue “cooperation on defense issues”, particularly on Ukraine’s air defenses. He also thanked the French president for his support of the UN Security Council and they discussed the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Source: News Beast
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