Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Andrii Sybiha, has arrived in Syria to meet with the head of the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and de facto leader of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa.
According to Ukrinform, this was reported by Arab News and Syrian Television.
The media state that the parties met in Damascus, the capital of Syria.
The Ukrainian Foreign Minister arrived on an unannounced visit.
As reported earlier, on December 27, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Heorhii Tykhyi, mentioned that Ukraine had already established contact with the new Syrian authorities and was ready to restore diplomatic relations if the new government reversed its recognition of Bashar al-Assad’s regime’s violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity.
“We will send more batches of food aid to Syria”, – this was stated by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andrii Sybiha.
“We promised to support food security and are implementing the promise in a short time. Tomorrow, more than two dozen trucks will arrive in Syria, which will deliver 500 tons of Ukrainian flour as part of the humanitarian program “Grain from Ukraine”. In general, we are ready to deliver many times more”, – he emphasized.