EU to allocate 25.4 million euros to help Donbas residents

Published May 27, 2021. Updated May 27 at 7:21 pm

Local residents walk past a destroyed building in the small town of Krasnohorivka in Donetsk Oblast on April 20, 2021. An emergency meeting between Russia, Ukraine and separatists was under way on April 20, 2021, in an effort to defuse soaring tensions over Russia's troop buildup along the ex-Soviet country's borders. A spokesman for the Ukrainian delegation told AFP that progress had been made on efforts to restore a ceasefire that was agreed last July but upended by a recent spate of clashes between Ukrainian troops and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. (AFP)

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The EU has announced new aid in the amount of 25.4 million euros to help people affected by the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.

“Glad to speak again to President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. I reiterated the EU’s unyielding support for Ukraine’s reforms and territorial integrity. We announced new aid worth 25.4 million euros to help people suffering from the conflict. We also stands by Ukraine in the fight against COVID19,” she wrote on Twitter on May 27.