“In a few days, a ship will leave the port of Marseille to deliver food, medical equipment and emergency rehabilitation” to Ukraine, announced Wednesday Emmanuel Macron in the message of support addressed to Ukrainians on the occasion of the Day of Independence, which also marked six months of war. “We are mobilizing today and we will mobilize tomorrow to help the military resistance of Ukraine and Ukrainians, and also to help rebuild tomorrow,” assured the Head of State in his video message, concluded in Ukrainian. .
According to France Inter, which obtained details from the French Embassy in Ukraine, a ship from the French company CMA-CGM will leave Marseille (Bouches-du-Rhône) “in the coming days”, notably loaded with ambulances and ‘construction machinery. It will head to Observation, in Romania, for unloading. The material will then be transported to Ukraine by road.
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A large part of the aid is intended for the reconstruction of the city of Chernihiv, 130 km north of kyiv, and a few tens of kilometers from the border with Belarus. At the start of the conflict, when the Kremlin was thinking of taking the Ukrainian capital at full speed and deposing President Zelensky in the blink of an eye, the city of Chernihiv was attacked by columns of Russian tanks. The siege coming up against Ukrainian resistance, the Russian army had taken position around the city, heavily bombarded and 70% destroyed.