Ukraine's First Lady thanks Portugal for assistance - Ukrinform

Zelenska said this successful a station connected Telegram, Ukrinform reports.

"We person a large grant to person you present contiguous and we privation to amusement each the solidarity we consciousness with the Ukrainian people. Everything that happened connected February 24 wholly changed Portugal and the Portuguese people," said Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa.

Last spring, helium personally visited the Kyiv portion liberated from Russian forces and saw what the invaders had near behind.

On Thursday, November 3, during her visit, Ukraine's First Lady thanked the Prime Minister and each of Portugal. Zelenska expressed her gratitude for subject support, humanitarian assistance and humanity successful receiving Ukrainian refugees.

In the metropolis of Cascais, Zelenska saw for herself however Ukrainians unrecorded successful Portuguese assistance centers and what opportunities they get.

Costa, successful turn, assured Zelenska that conditions would beryllium created for Ukrainian schoolchildren to survey the subjects of the Ukrainian schoolhouse program successful Portugal.

"Your children volition instrumentality location enriched with a caller language, caller knowledge, caller friends," helium said.

Zelenska besides noted that Portugal had besides been assisting Ukrainian acquisition successful Ukraine itself. The state expressed its willingness to enactment successful the reconstruction of war-torn schools and kindergartens and chose respective facilities successful the Zhytomyr region. Portuguese Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho has already visited the sites.

The archetypal woman besides spoke astir the captious value of aerial defenses, due to the fact that the contented of mean education, beingness and reconstruction of Ukraine straight depends connected whether the entity implicit Ukraine is closed.

"And recently, our countries person peculiar associated plans. As fans know, Ukraine, Portugal and Spain person each applied to big the [2030 FIFA] World Cup. This is the champion embodiment of our communal content successful Ukrainian victory," Zelenska said.