Greta Thunberg comes to Ukraine and meets with President Zelenskyy
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with well-known environmental activist Greta Thunberg, who has arrived in Kyiv as a part of the International Working Group on the Environmental Consequences of War.
Source: President’s Office of Ukraine
Details: Greta Thunberg thanked Zelenskyy for the invitation and stressed that she will engage representatives of environmental NGOs in dialogue about the main tasks of the International Working Group and draw attention to the environmental consequences of the war.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy noted that the International Working Group needs to work on a vast range of issues connected with the impact of Russia’s aggression on Ukraine’s ecological system.
Zelesnkyy asked the members of the group to pay attention to the catastrophic consequences of the blowing up of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) with which the residents of Kherson Oblast are faced.
Quote: "It is important to propose a set of specific measures to help Ukrainians from the temporarily occupied settlements. These are our people, who must receive the support they need at such a difficult time," Zelenskyy stressed.
Details: Margot Wallström, former Deputy Prime Minister and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden; Heidi Hautala, Deputy Prime Minister of the European Parliament; and Mary Robinson, President of Ireland in 1990-1997 have arrived in Kyiv as members of the working group.
Background:
- Earlier, prominent Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg said that Russia has committed ecocide in the south of Ukraine and must be punished for it.
- Thunberg made the statement after President Zelenskyy called on over 60 international political and public figures, including the young Swedish environmental activist, to punish Russia for ecocide.
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