South Korea has agreed to provide Ukraine with $130 million in financial aid after the Ukrainian first lady requested humanitarian assistance from the government amid the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine.
Finance Minister Choo Kyung-ho and his Ukrainian counterpart, Yulia Svyrydenko, signed a preliminary agreement on the package during a meeting in Seoul on May 17, the South Korean Finance Ministry stated.
On the same day, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin held talks with Ukraine’s first lady, Olena Zelenska, in Seoul. They discussed the situation in Ukraine, which has been impacted by the Russian war since February last year.
Zelenska told Park that her country is in need of ambulances and other equipment to be used for humanitarian purposes on the battlefields, according to South Korea’s Foreign Ministry….