National Defense Minister Helena Carreiras announced this Wednesday in Toledo that Portugal is ready to provide demining training for Ukrainian sappers and divers, but Ukraine has not yet issued a request.
“The request in this regard has not yet been formalized, like many others that we systematically analyze,” the minister said, addressing Luz and RTP in the Spanish city of Toledo, before entering an informal European Union (EU) ministerial meeting with the defense portfolio .
Helena Carreiras added that the Portuguese Armed Forces “are ready in this case to provide support with training in this field of demining, but nothing more, that is, not with a presence in Ukraine, not with equipment.” .
Last week, in an interview with RTP, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov turned to Portugal for help, without specifying how, in clearing mines in the Black Sea, which has again become an active object of conflict after Russia’s “rupture”. the agreement on the export of Ukrainian cereals was valid for a period of one year.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky repeated this message a few days later during a visit by his Portuguese counterpart, Marcelo Rebelo de Souza.
Author: Portuguese
Source: CM Jornal
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