Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis and his counterparts from six other countries are visiting Kyiv on Monday.
“We, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway and Sweden, are in Kyiv today in full solidarity with Ukraine,” Landsbergis tweeted.
“Despite Russia’s bomb rains and barbaric brutality Ukraine will win!” he added.
We, the Ministers of Foreign Affairs from 🇪🇪🇫🇮🇮🇸🇱🇻🇱🇹🇳🇴🇸🇪, are in Kyiv today in full solidarity with Ukraine. Despite Russia's bomb rains and barbaric brutality Ukraine will win! pic.twitter.com/6FpGT3aENM
— Gabrielius Landsbergis🇱🇹 (@GLandsbergis) November 28, 2022
His visit comes a few days after Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė travelled to the Ukrainian capital together with several other European leaders to commemorate the victims of the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine regarded by Kyiv as a deliberate act of genocide by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
According to Polish and Lithuanian media, the prime ministers of the two EU member states were in Ukraine for talks that could focus on a possible new wave of migration from Ukraine this winter.
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said later on Monday that meetings in Kyiv focused on the energy crisis triggered by Russia’s strikes on Ukraine’s infrastructure, and efforts to set up a special tribunal to investigate crimes of aggression.
“Our first meetings in Kyiv – with the CEO of UkrEnergo and the deputy prosecutor general of Ukraine – send a clear signal about Ukraine’s priorities at the moment,” Landsbergis said in a press release.
“I do hope that the countries still undecided about the necessity of the Special Tribunal for investigating the crime of aggression will consider the Ukrainian request,” he added.
The CEO of UkrEnergo, Ukraine’s electricity transmission system operator, told the ministers that his country needed not only weapons, but also power generators and transformers.
“It seems that we all will face a tough winter. However, the winter will be much tougher for the Ukrainians with constant bomb rains and disrupted power and water supply,” said Landsbergis.
“Lithuania was the first country to supply power generators and transformers to Ukraine, but it needs much more,” he added.
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