12:40 27.02.2023

Saudi Arabia to provide $400 mln in aid to Ukraine – Yermak

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Saudi Arabia to provide $400 mln in aid to Ukraine – Yermak

Ukraine and Saudi Arabia signed in Kyiv on February 26 documents on providing Kyiv with a $400 million aid package, $100 million in humanitarian aid and $300 million in oil products, Head of the President's Office of Ukraine Andriy Yermak said on his Telegram channel.

"There is a successful visit to Kyiv by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud. He met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the team. This is the first official visit of the Foreign Minister of Saudi Arabia to Ukraine since the establishment of diplomatic relations between our countries (on April 14, 1993). And I am personally grateful to Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud for the constructive dialogue that eventually led us to this meeting," he said.

In particular, Yermak also said "we are talking about a joint program of cooperation with the Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center of King Salman and a Memorandum of Understanding with the Saudi Development Fund."

"I would like to remind you that Ukraine and Saudi Arabia have common challenges and experience in dealing with them. We are talking about Iranian UAVs that were supplied to certain 'rebels' and carried out attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia," he also said.

Yermak said "since last year, these same Iranian UAVs ended up in the possession of Russian terrorists and are carrying out attacks on the Ukrainian energy infrastructure. Therefore, we also have common experience in fighting terrorists."

 

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