Meeting on food security in Kyiv

 According to Reuters, Vladimir Zelensky said at a meeting on food security in Kyiv that the country needs more air defense systems to protect grain export routes, as well as border areas with Russia. According to this report, several high-ranking European officials attended the meeting, including the President of Switzerland and the Prime Minister of Lithuania. Zelensky's comments came after Russia on Saturday carried out its biggest drone strike since the war in Ukraine began in February 2022. Holodomor Memorial Day, or the Great Ukrainian Famine, remembers the victims of the famine of Ukraine within the USSR, which was caused by the policies of the government of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin in 1932 and 1933 and led to the deaths of millions of Ukrainians.

Meanwhile, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen promised to help the country in a letter to Zelensky, which she also published on the social network X. According to the report, the European Commission will allocate 50 million euros to compensate for damage to the infrastructure of Ukrainian ports. In February 2024, the war in Ukraine will last two years. This country launched a counter-offensive in June of this year (2023), which, according to Ukrainian and Western officials, did not lead to significant results. Since the beginning of the war, Moscow has set itself the goals of protecting the population of the self-proclaimed Donbass republics, eliminating threats to Russia's security, forcing Ukraine to military neutrality and eliminating Nazi tendencies from it.