Ukraine gets more promises of support on the 90th anniversary of the famine

Ukraine received more promises of support against Moscow on Saturday, on the 90th anniversary of the "Holodomor", a famine that was deliberately caused by the Stalinist regime in the 1930s and has received greater resonance since the Russian war.

And Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that his people will withstand the Russian attacks, which regularly cause major power and water outages with the onset of winter.

"Ukrainians have gone through terrible things," Zelensky said in a video on Telegram. "Despite everything, they retained their disobedience and their love of freedom. In the past they wanted to destroy us with hunger, today with darkness and cold."

"We cannot be broken," the Ukrainian president stressed.

A number of European leaders traveled to Kyiv on Saturday to commemorate the famine, which Ukraine considers "genocide".

And media in Poland and Lithuania reported that the prime ministers of the two countries, who support Kyiv, Matush Morawiecki and Ingrida Simonet, will hold talks in the Ukrainian capital that are supposed to focus especially on a possible new wave of Ukrainian immigration to Europe this winter.

Ukrainian border guards confirmed that Moravitsky "visited Kyiv and took part in honoring the victims of the Great Famine".

Belgian Prime Minister Alexandre de Croo headed to Kyiv on his first visit to Ukraine since the start of the war.

And the Belgian news agency (Belga) reported that he carries with him an additional financial support of 37.4 million euros for Ukraine.

"We have arrived in Kyiv. After the heavy bombing of the last few days, we stand with the Ukrainian people. Today more than ever," he wrote on Twitter.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced in a video an additional aid of ten million euros to support war-affected Ukrainian grain exports.

On Wednesday, the German parliament adopted a draft resolution deeming the famine caused by Joseph Stalin's regime in Ukraine ninety years ago a "genocide", a mass crime that has resonated since the Russian war.

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