The Motherland Monument in Kyiv. File photoPARIS, May 30.French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna left on her first working trip to Kyiv, meetings are scheduled with Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba and Volodymyr Zelensky, the French Foreign Ministry said. With this trip, the Minister wants to demonstrate France's solidarity with the Ukrainian people and its full determination to strengthen support for Ukraine… both in humanitarian and financial terms, and in the supply of defense equipment,» the French Foreign Office said in a communiqué.
The political scientist explained why Ukraine is dangerous for France and Germany. It is noted that the Colonna will visit the city of Bucha and hand over to the Ukrainian authorities the civil security equipment sent by Paris (fire trucks and ambulances). «Catherine Colonna will meet with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmitry Kuleba after their first contact on May 25 to discuss France's support for Ukraine in all areas, and in particular the blocking of the export of grain and oilseeds from Ukraine,» the ministry said. The head of the French Foreign Ministry will also be received by Vladimir Zelensky. Earlier, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Russia does not interfere with the export of Ukrainian grain, logistical problems arose through the fault of Kyiv, its troops mined their seaports. The Foreign Ministry added that «the talk about Russia's allegedly blocking the export of Ukrainian grain in the Black Sea ports and the resulting deficit in the grain market is nothing but speculation.» A former employee of the Odessa sea harbor told RIA Novosti that Ukraine is exporting wheat reserves from storage facilities in the port of Odessa by alternative routes under pressure from the European Union, despite the threat of a grain shortage in the country itself. that the world food crisis is allegedly caused by the operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. According to him, «a number of Western colleagues do not shy away from using other plots to divert the attention of the world community from sabotaging the Palestinian-Israeli settlement.» Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
