ATHENS -Greece’s International Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in Odesa on Sunday on the head of a humanitarian help mission into the southern port metropolis of Ukraine, the overseas ministry mentioned.
The humanitarian help was handed to the town’s municipal authorities.
Dendias, 62, additionally goals to arrange a steady mechanism of distributing help from Greece and to reopen the nation’s consulate within the metropolis.
“The reopening of (Greece’s) consulate will assist distribute humanitarian help and arrange corridors for the Greek ethnic group to go away from any areas of Ukraine, if wanted, by way of Odesa,” the minister mentioned after upon his arrival in Odesa, in accordance with a press release from the Greek overseas ministry.
Missiles struck Odesa within the early hours of Sunday, the town council mentioned in a web based put up.
Dendias mentioned final month he deliberate to guide a humanitarian help mission to the besieged metropolis of Mariupol in Ukraine, the place hundreds of ethnic Greeks reside, however intense preventing there meant the vacation spot was subsequently modified to Odesa.
At the least 10 ethnic Greeks have been killed and several other have been wounded since Russia began attacking Mariupol. Greater than 150 Greek residents, vessel crews and ethnic Greeks have been evacuated from the area, in accordance with the Greek authorities.
Ukraine’s troops have retaken greater than 30 cities and villages round Kyiv, Ukrainian officers mentioned on Saturday, claiming full management of the capital area for the primary time since Russia launched its invasion.
Russia has depicted its drawdown of forces close to Kyiv as a goodwill gesture in peace talks. Ukraine and its allies say Russia was compelled to shift its focus to east Ukraine after struggling heavy losses.
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