Tallinn Mayor Mihhail Kõlvart has this week visited Ukraine to learn the humanitarian needs of Ukrainians in Lviv, which has not seen the fighting of ground forces in current Russia’s invasion of the country, Estonian public broadcaster ERR reports.
In the two-day visit, the Centre Party politician visited the refugee reception centre in Lviv’s Shevchenko district, the Lviv hospital and a temporary shelter at the Les Kurbas theatre and met with the city’s Mayor Andrei Sadovy.
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«At the moment, Ukrainian city leaders need humanitarian aid to cope with the influx of refugees, but they also need moral support from their European counterparts,» Kõlvart said after the visit. «We are sending to the City of Lviv what the city’s remaining residents and the 200,000 refugees are most in need of food and hygiene items,» the Talllinn Mayor noted.
Kõlvart has been the first senior Estonian official to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded the country on February 24. Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs Eva-Maria Liimets was in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv the day the war started and has returned to Estonia, ERR reports.
Estonia’s Kõlvart visits Ukraine showing Tallinn’s support
