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Ukraine’s largest donor in terms of financial aid is the United States. India and Turkey are helping us too.
In 2020, 28 states, as well as the enclave states of the Vatican and the Sovereign Order of Malta, provided assistance to Ukraine to counter the spread of the coronavirus disease. This is stated in the response of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine to the request of Radio Liberty.
Judging by data from the ministry, Ukraine’s largest donor in terms of volume of financial aid is U.S – First, they allocated $ 17.3 million for emergency medical care to Ukraine. In October, this amount increased to 19 million.
USAID’s International Emergency Assistance program, 13.8 million of this amount, is intended to improve the capacity of local health facilities. Another 5.2 million are humanitarian aid from the State Department “to support the most vulnerable during the pandemic.”
Some aid projects are still under development, the Foreign Ministry said in its response. For example, the Estonian company BLRT Group participates in the creation of a Medical Assistance Center in Dnipro and in the purchase of artificial lung ventilation devices for it.
The private Ukrainian company Ilyashev and Partners, which has access to the Estonian market, is collaborating with the Red Cross and Red Crescent, a non-governmental organization, on “a series of humanitarian aid projects to Ukraine in connection with the COVID pandemic. -19 “. This assistance includes the provision of protective masks, suits and hygiene products.
Twice during the year, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy contacted the Prime Minister From Israel Benjamin Netanyahu on the provision of humanitarian aid to Ukraine. In July, the health ministers of the two countries, Yaakov Litzman and Maxim Stepanov, spoke on the same topic, who agreed that Ukraine could receive an Israeli vaccine when Tel Aviv completes the tests.
India In the spring, it provided Ukraine with the drug hydroxychloroquine, which was at one time considered one of the most likely drugs for coronavirus disease. In addition, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs clarifies that the shipment of Indian humanitarian aid included a batch of vaccines against typhus, meningitis, cholera and malaria for the Ukrainian military who were carrying out a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Canada plans, in addition to the funds already allocated, to provide $ 700 thousand to a humanitarian fund for Ukraine, to allocate $ 290 thousand for local communities, as well as equipment and protective equipment for the National Police, the National Guard, the Ministry of Defense , the judiciary and the municipal authorities.
China it is currently considering the supply of essential goods by the Guangdong authorities to the Kiev region. The Foreign Ministry also reports on “ensuring communication” with the office of Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma on the transfer of 50 thousand test kits to Ukraine for the diagnosis of coronavirus.
government GermanyIn addition to the assistance provided, he is working on directing a loan of 150 million euros to combat the epidemic and the transfer of 18 ventilators to the Ministry of Health of Ukraine in the amount of more than 500 thousand euros.
The Chancellery also reports on the assistance of private companies Turkey… In particular, Ankara organized the assistance of the mobile operator Lifecell: two ventilators and free mobile services for doctors, preferential mobile communications for Ukrainian citizens.
The Turkish holding company Onur Group has provided UAH 10 million to hospitals in Lviv and the region: three mobile X-ray systems worth almost UAH 7 million and other medical equipment, personal protective equipment. Guris Holding provided assistance worth UAH 1.1 million to the Odessa region. Limak Holding provided personal protective equipment, FFP2 respirators and an intensive care unit in a Kiev hospital. The Turkish-Ukrainian Association of Entrepreneurs TUID has provided washing machines of the Turkish brand BEKO to infectious disease hospitals in the Lviv and Kherson regions.
Switzerland announced its willingness to provide humanitarian aid to 11 hospitals in eastern Ukraine in the amount of more than 1.5 million francs (47.3 million hryvnia). According to the Foreign Ministry, the Swiss Cooperation Office in Kiev plans to provide 200,000 francs (6.3 million hryvnia) to fight the coronavirus. In addition, the Federal Higher Technical School in Zurich and the leadership of the Ukrainian state company Novator are negotiating the joint development of a prototype of the fan.
Japan, in turn, included Ukraine in the list of states that can receive a free batch of an experimental drug for the treatment of COVID-19 Favipiravir, known in this country as Avigan, in the amount of 12.2 thousand tablets, which they may be sufficient for more than one hundred patients. This will be possible after joint clinical drug trials.
In addition, the Japanese company Medical & Biological Laboratories has announced its willingness to donate 1,000 test PCR tests for the diagnosis of coronavirus. In addition, the Japanese company Marubeni Protechs Corporation (part of the Marubeni Corporation trading house) expressed its willingness to provide medical supplies and equipment to counter the spread of COVID-19 in Ukraine.
Let us remind you that Dmitry Kuleba said that Joe Biden will become the first American leader who will not need to explain what Ukraine is.
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