Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland

2:00 am

H.E. Ms Larysa Gerasko:

That is a very complicated question. The European Union and the European partners take it seriously. Maybe they did not at the beginning of the full scale invasion but our partners and European countries have realised Putin and Russia pose threats to all of us by different means like blackmailing, nuclear radiation, bombardments, testing airspace and waters, using Ukrainian immigration, weaponising winter and energy, using children and hybrid war and cyberattacks. We are witnessing all these tools Putin uses.