Posted on 04/11/2022 1:31:34 PM PDT by Cronos
On April 8, more than 34 tons of humanitarian aid — primarily medicines, first aid kits, and food — arrived in western Ukraine’s Zakarpatska region, also referred to as Transcarpathia, from Uzbekistan. The aid from Uzbekistan joins a flow of assistance funneled into Ukraine from a number of humanitarian aid hubs established by the European Union in countries on Ukraine’s western frontier.
The head of the Zakarpatska region, Viktor Mikita, thanked the Uzbek government and the Ukrainian ambassador in Tashkent, Mykola Doroshenko, for making the aid possible. Doroshenko became ambassador in Uzbekistan in 2020, after serving as ambassador to Kyrgyzstan.
As the war in Ukraine approaches its seventh week, pledges and shipments of aid continue to flow from around the world. The countries of Central Asia have largely strived to maintain a neutral stance at the official diplomatic level, for example abstaining from (or avoiding) the early March vote to condemn the Russian invasion and voting against expelling Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council last week. But at the same time, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan most stridently have uttered support for Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The humanitarian aid that both countries have dispatched further underscores sympathy for Ukraine’s plight.
..Kazakhstan’s authorities have also showed uncharacteristic leniency in allowing public rallies in support of Ukraine. Thousands of protesters holding banners reading “Russians, leave Ukraine”, “Long Live Ukraine” and “Bring Putin to trial” marched across the capital, Almaty, wrapping monuments to Lenin and other Soviet-era figures with yellow and blue balloons symbolising the Ukrainian flag.
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Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan understand that after Putin gets done with Ukraine then it will be someone else’s turn and they don’t want it to be Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan.
Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan join NATO!
You will restore the warrior spirit to Europe!
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