Ukraine’s Special Envoy for Africa and the Middle East, Maksym Subhk says although his country is already making postwar recovery...
, says Russia will pay compensation for the damages it has done in Ukraine through its invasion of the country.
You know that I have been on a tour with my minister, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dmytro Kuleba. We started the tour on 2 October, together with my minister we visited five countries then I continued the tour and I also visited four more countries and actually Nigeria comes at the very end of my tour because we believe that we need to talk with our African friends, partners.
So I am here just to say to our Nigerian brothers and sisters that we need the support of the whole international community and we must deliver the truth. Then we had more than 8,500 Nigerian students, the Nigerian student community is the second largest one in Ukraine. So definitely, now we are facing so many problems in providing for those students who had to flee Ukraine with an opportunity to resume their study that is why one of the options is online study.
That is why we advise that those students continue their studies online and also, tomorrow I am going to deliver a very clear algorithm on how Nigerian students can continue their study in Ukraine.
They really became patriots of Ukraine. They really became patriots of their native country and Ukraine and they clearly realise and understand what is behind that aggression. As I said, at the very beginning, it was absolutely unjust, unfair and unnecessary I believe that we need closer cooperation and closer coordination between our sides. Also, I hope that my visit to Nigeria and the tour which was conducted by the minister and myself will help really to get our positions closer, closer not only just on the bilateral level, but also multilaterally.
PT: Still on this UN resolution and Ukraine voting against concrete action, don’t you see that move jeopardising the reason for your trips to Africa?Well, actually generally, since we have applied for membership in the European Union, Ukraine always coordinates and adheres to the position of the European Union countries.
Ukraine had an independent and separate seat in the United Nations since this organisation was founded. Then Ukraine was one of the founders of the committee for fighting apartheid and racism; that was in the 20th century. Now we have talks with the United Arab Emirates as the Emirati President has visited Moscow before that, and we always ask our partners not to talk about Ukraine without Ukraine. So everything which has relation or connection to Ukraine, we always urge our partners to discuss this issue with us directly.
Russia has annexed two more territories. Now we have more than 21 per cent of Ukrainian territory under Russian occupation. So now we do not see that there is any possibility for both presidents to talk directly. So we will be continuing fighting and we are getting a lot of support from our Western partners in the United States, including military ones.
And we have to underline that NATO is a purely defensive bloc. We believe that NATO is really able, once Ukraine is a part of that bloc, NATO will be able to protect Ukraine. Several weeks ago, Ukraine decided to expel the Iranian Ambassador from Ukraine and also to significantly decrease the number of Iranian diplomats in Ukraine. We urged the Iranian side not to be a part of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. Now we consider Iran as an accomplice in this war.
Russia actually is using every possible way to endanger the Ukrainian population. Russia is using the civil facilities as shelters, and also they target our army from inside the cities. You know, that since 2014, the Russian troops were present physically at Donbas and that was the reason the Ukrainian army could not get in and was not able to liberate Donbas because of the presence of the Russian army.
I am sure that our army is defending our people. And when the Russian army entered and occupied Ukrainian cities, no one met them with flowers or with open hearts and minds. Vice versa, the people were resisting and still resisting because people do not want to be brought back again to the Soviet era, to the era of the absence of freedom, absence of the right of speech.
So the report was published without prior notice. And that was the reaction of the Ukrainian office of Amnesty International towards this biased report.There are very concrete plans to rebuild Ukraine. We already have a list of our international partners who are willing already to embark on different projects and programmes for the postwar rebuilding of Ukraine.
The more we get international support, the more the pressure on Russia will be increasing and simply, we will never recognise the annexation or the loss of our territories. Because if we do, that would mean the disintegration of the whole country. We believe that only under these sanctions, the Russian economy will be getting more and more weak. And of course, that in a way will help Ukraine to liberate its lands. It will also send a clear message to the Russian people that Putin’s regime is doing a wrong thing and once they stop doing that, the sanctions will be lifted.
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