{"id":1224809,"date":"2025-09-26T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1224809"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:53:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:53:20","slug":"france-emerges-as-europe-wide-hub-for-supporting-ukraine-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/france-emerges-as-europe-wide-hub-for-supporting-ukraine-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"France Emerges as Europe-Wide Hub for Supporting Ukraine \u2014 Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>France has become a <strong>central European hub of political, economic, humanitarian, and defense support<\/strong> for Ukraine, especially amid <strong>strategic security uncertainty following the arrival of the new U.S. administration<\/strong>, Ukrainian Ambassador to France <strong>Vadym Omelchenko<\/strong> said at the <strong>France\u2013Ukraine Forum in Paris<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cOver the past year, <strong>France has fully transformed into a pan-European hub<\/strong> for Ukraine\u2019s political, economic, humanitarian, and defense support,\u201d Omelchenko noted. <strong>\u201cIn 2025 alone we have seen 52 high-level contacts<\/strong> \u2014 including <strong>two visits by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/strong>, eight meetings between the two presidents at multilateral events, and three visits to Paris by top Ukrainian government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For the <strong>first time in modern Ukrainian diplomacy<\/strong>, France\u2019s foreign minister <strong>Jean-No\u00ebl Barrot<\/strong> was invited as an honorary guest to the annual Ukrainian Ambassadors\u2019 Conference. Ukraine\u2019s parliament speaker <strong>Ruslan Stefanchuk<\/strong> also addressed the French Senate, while <strong>French ministers and MPs visited the front line and frontline regions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Omelchenko stressed that <strong>France has stepped up efforts to rally European allies<\/strong>, taking a <strong>leadership role<\/strong> in coordinating support for Ukraine. France initiated a <strong>\u201cCoalition of the Willing\u201d<\/strong> to strengthen Ukraine\u2019s army and defense industry and to <strong>prepare for deployment of a contingent in Ukraine once a peace deal is reached<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year alone, <strong>France delivered a \u20ac2 billion military aid package<\/strong>, including <strong>air-defense systems, missiles, and ammunition<\/strong>, and provided <strong>the first batch of Mirage 2000-5F fighter jets<\/strong>. Since the start of the full-scale war, <strong>French instructors have trained over 15,000 Ukrainian troops<\/strong> in France and Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>France is also helping war-affected regions rebuild. <strong>Seven new partnerships<\/strong> were signed this year between French and Ukrainian cities \u2014 among them <strong>Le Havre\u2013Mariupol, Nantes &amp; Saint-Nazaire\u2013Kherson, Amiens\u2013Kryvyi Rih, and Montpellier\u2013Mykolaiv<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The remarks came during the <strong>fourth \u201cFrance\u2013Ukraine\u201d forum<\/strong>, organized by the <strong>French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)<\/strong> and the <strong>New Europe Center<\/strong> in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France has become a central European hub of political, economic, humanitarian, and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1224810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,49,36418,36415],"tags":[78],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1224809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-en","category-11473-news-en-2","category-11473-news-en","tag-homepage-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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