Three high-ranking representatives of the European Union will visit Ukraine on March 7-10, where they will travel to Donbas and then meet with a number of Ukrainian officials and representatives of international donor organizations, the EU Delegation in Ukraine reports.
“We are talking about Luc Delevine, the chairman of the department of the EU External Action Service for Russia, the Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and the OSCE, Jean Louis de Bruvere, the head of the European Commission’s Department of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) and Peter Wagner, the head Support groups of Ukraine,” the delegation said.
“The objective of the visit of Luc Devigne, Director of Division for Russia, Eastern Partnership, Central Asia and OSCE (EEAS); Jean Louis de Brouwer, Director of the European Humanitarian aid and civil protection department (ECHO) and Peter Wagner, Director of Support Group of Ukraine (SGUA) is to assess the EU assistance provided to Ukraine so far, discuss ways how to increase its efficiency and how to make it more systemic, how to further and better coordinate it with other donors,” the EU Delegation to Ukraine said in a statement.
All three directors will first travel to Eastern Ukraine, in particular Kramatorsk (March 8), Leonydivka, Toretsk and Bakhmut (March 9).
In Kyiv on March 10, they are planning to have meetings at high political level with representatives of Ukrainian institutions (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry for Temporarily Occupied Territories and IDPs, Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, Verkhovna Rada) as well as of international community (USAID, foreign embassies, UN agencies, etc.).
