Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 June 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence
Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland
H.E. Ms Larysa Gerasko:
I thank the Deputy for asking about that. We get these vehicles sent to Ukraine and, unfortunately, we need more support. We constantly send our list of, not requirements, but needs, to the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Department of housing. We need ambulances because, as the Deputy understands, ambulances are under attack all the time. We got many from Ireland; however, many ambulances were destroyed by attacks. We also need civil equipment for building fortifications in order to protect our settlements, cities and villages from offensive attacks. We also need energy equipment, as I mentioned, medical equipment, medicine, construction vehicles, demining equipment again, and vehicles for servicing the grid. As I mentioned, we constantly send a list, which we get from the capital. We send it to the Irish authorities. There are constant and permanent needs because we are fighting every single day. Every single day, Russians attack and destroy something. There are constant needs.