Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 60 million euros to the Energy Support Fund for Ukraine. This was announced by Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko following a meeting with German Minister of Economics and Energy Katerina Reiche.
“Germany is strengthening the resilience of our critical infrastructure and is contributing 60 million euros to the Energy Support Fund for Ukraine. These funds will help to deliver generators, energy equipment and mobile thermal power plants more quickly,” — the message says.
Svyrydenko noted that these funds will allow to accelerate the supply of generators, energy equipment and mobile thermal power plants. During the negotiations, the parties also discussed Ukraine’s preparations for the winter period and agreed to create a joint working group on energy and expand industrial cooperation.
“A Ukrainian-German business forum will be held in Berlin in December, which can become an effective platform for new partnerships between our companies”, the head of government noted.
Svyrydenko also reported that Kyiv had proposed to Berlin to conclude an intergovernmental agreement to support investors based on the model already used by Denmark, the Netherlands, France and Switzerland.
“Today, macro-financial support is particularly important, and our German partners support any path that will allow these assets to be used to help Ukraine and end the war as soon as possible”, added the head government.
As a reminder, on October 24, German Minister of Economics and Energy Katerina Reiche arrived in Kyiv on an official visit. During her stay in the Ukrainian capital, the main attention will be paid to the issues of restoring energy infrastructure and expanding cooperation between Ukraine and Germany in the defense sector.
