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French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian Photo: Thomas Coex / AFP
The French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, announced this Saturday that both he and her German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, will visit Ukraine on February 7 and 8 to discuss the current tension with Russia with the country’s authorities on the build-up of troops on the border and examine ways to alleviate the economic deterioration caused by the chaotic situation.
The head of French diplomacy, through his Twitter account, assured his Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitri Kuleba, “France’s full support and solidarity with Ukraine”. “The mobilization continues to reduce tensions,” he added.
In response, Kuleba added on his own account on the social network that he has explored with Le Drian different ways to help the deteriorating Ukrainian economy. “In a conversation with Jean-Yves Le Drian, we discussed helping Ukraine’s economy to overcome security risks,” Kuleba wrote on his Twitter account.
In any case, the heads of the diplomats of Ukraine and France, according to the tweet, agreed on the “importance of remaining vigilant and rigid in relation to Russia, and working on diplomatic solutions.”
A day before, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, lamented a flight of capital from the country estimated at 12,500 million dollars (about 11,000 million euros) due to the panic generated by the situation.
“Our state cannot meet such challenges. We are stabilizing our national currency from state reserves, so it is very expensive for Ukraine, and this is a somewhat reckless information policy”, he indicated before estimating that an injection of between 4,000 and 5,000 million would be necessary. dollars (about 4,400 million euros) to repair part of the impact of this leak.