Anastasiadis for Zelensky: "It bothers us that there was no reference to the Turkish invasion"

Ukrainian President, ex-comic actor, Volodymyr Zelensky addressing national parliaments across the globe.

The President of Cyprus stressed that it was important to hear what the Ukrainian people are experiencing.

Ukrainian President, ex-comic actor, Volodymyr Zelensky addresses parliament, calls on Cyprus to close ports to Russian ships

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Thursday called on Cyprus to close its ports to all Russian ships and to deny “privileges” to Russian nationals, as part of an effort to turn the squeeze on Moscow over its invasion of his country.

He was speaking to the Cypriot legislature via video link – part of his virtual tour of addressing national parliaments across the globe.

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Ukraine's defence imports from Turkey jumped 30-fold in Q1 - Turkish data...

Ukraine received almost 30 times as much defence industry equipment from Turkey in first quarter as it did a year earlier, while it prepared for and fought against Russian invasion, official data showed.

Turkey exported $59.1 million of such products to Ukraine in the period, compared with $1.9 million in the first quarter of 2021, data published by the Turkish Exporters’ Assembly showed.

The assembly, an industry association, did not specifically identify the equipment.

Ukraine has bought more than 20 Bayraktar TB2 armed drones from Turkish company Baykar in recent years and ordered a further 16 on January 27. That batch was delivered in early March.

Ankara and Kyiv have long-standing defence-cooperation ties.