Sweden ramps up financial support to Ukraine as minister visits Kyiv
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With international tensions still high regarding Russian troop movements and exercises close to the Ukrainian border, Sweden's Minister for International Development Cooperation Matilda Ernkrans has been in Ukraine to talk about a Swedish yearly investment of SEK 243 million to strengthen social development in the country.
Speaking from Kyiv where she has been in talks with Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, the Red Cross and others, the Minister tells Radio Sweden how important the financial assistance will be over the next seven years.
"We have decided to ramp up our financial support to Ukraine in a strategy which we think will be very important for Ukraine and shows that they can count on us," she says.