Tag: Kuleba

EU membership talks ‘big day’ for Ukraine, Moldova says Kiev’s Kuleba

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Friday praised the European Union decision to start talks on Ukrainian and Moldovan membership on Tuesday. “This is a big day for Ukraine, Moldova, and the European Union. All 27 EU member states have approved negotiating frameworks, and practical EU accession talks are scheduled to begin next week,” Kuleba […]

Ukraine Urgently Needs Additional Air Defense: Minister Kuleba

(Bloomberg) — Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged allies and partners “to take extraordinary steps” to provide more air defense units to Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg “We urgently require additional Patriots, other modern air defense systems, weapons and ammunition,” Kuleba said in a video address, while addressing the second Black Sea Security Conference in […]

Ukraine needs Patriot missiles, Foreign Minister Kuleba tells NATO

Ukraine needs Patriot surface-to-air missiles to defend itself from Russian ballistic missile attacks, the country’s foreign minister said at NATO headquarters on Thursday. “I don’t want to spoil the party,” Dmytro Kuleba said after congratulating NATO members on the alliance’s 75th anniversary. “But my main message today will be Patriots.” “Saving Ukrainian lives, saving the […]

Ukraine’s Kuleba is optimistic about country’s European future

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba, who is currently on a visit to Odessa together with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, has expressed optimism about his country’s future in the European Union. “Two years ago, I could not have imagined that in 2024 there would be so many reasons to be proud to be European,” said […]

Kuleba meets with Portuguese FM in Kyiv

Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba met with his Portuguese counterpart Joao Cravinho in Kyiv on Feb. 6 during Cravinho’s two-day visit to Ukraine. The Portuguese delegation arrived in Ukraine on Feb. 5, headed by Cravinho and Education Minister Joao Costa. It was not Cravinho’s first visit to Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, having […]

Kuleba invites newly appointed Moldovan foreign minister to Kyiv

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba congratulated Moldovan politician Mihai Popsoi on his appointment as the country’s new foreign minister and invited him to Kyiv, Kuleba said on Jan. 30. Popsoi assumed the role on Jan. 29 amid heightened tensions between Moldova and the breakaway region of Transnistria, as well as the Kremlin’s reported plans to […]

Ukraine can regain control of its skies in 2024 – Kuleba

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba believes that the country’s goal of regaining control of its airspace, including with the help of F-16 fighter jets, is achievable under one condition. Source: Kuleba at a joint press conference with his Lithuanian counterpart Gabrielius Landsbergis in Kyiv on 27 January Details: “If we get F-16s, if we have […]

Preparations underway for Uzhgorod meeting between Yermak, Kuleba, and Szijjártó

Ukraine’s Presidential chief-of-staff Andriy Yermak held a phone conversation with Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, the Presidential Office reported on Jan. 19. They discussed the preparation for a meeting scheduled for Jan. 29 in Uzhgorod. On the Ukrainian side, Yermak and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba will participate. Read also: Ukrainian membership would threaten EU security, Hungary […]

Kuleba urges West to get serious about strangling Russia’s ability to produce weapons

“The West must get serious about strangling Russia’s ability to produce weapons,” Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba wrote on X (Twitter) on Jan. 19. Kuleba pointed out that “up to 95% of the foreign-produced critical components found in Russian weapons destroyed in Ukraine come from Western countries.” The components, likely sent to Russia by private firms, “are not necessarily military […]