Ukraine, Poland smooth over WW2 dispute at Gdansk aid forum
Key takeaways
- Ukraine and its European allies are looking to encourage investment in Kyiv's post-war recovery.
- "The challenges facing our continent are existential," she said at the opening of the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Baltic port city of Gdansk.
- "Ukraine empowers European defense," said Syvyrdenko in an appeal for continued investment in her country.
Why this matters: an international story with cross-border implications worth tracking.
Ukraine and its European allies are looking to encourage investment in Kyiv's post-war recovery. The first tranche of an EU loan has already arrived with more deals on the table. But relations with Poland are strained.
https://p.dw.com/p/5G4k ZDespite historical tensions between Poland and Ukraine, European leaders displayed a united front in Gdansk Image: Lukasz Glowala/REUTERSAdvertisement Ukraine is expecting to sign more than 160 defense, business and regional development agreements worth over €10 billion over the next couple of days, the country's prime minister, Yulia Syvyrdenko, said in Poland on Thursday.
"The challenges facing our continent are existential," she said at the opening of the annual Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Baltic port city of Gdansk. "We're forced to to survive. This has become our superpower."