Croatia to Provide Ukraine with New 12th Military-Technical Assistance Package

During a meeting with Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announced the preparation of a new package of military and technical assistance. This was reported by the Croatian newspaper Dnevnik and the Ukrainian Prime Minister on social media.

‘Any failure of Ukraine would be a major security risk,’ Plenkovic said.

He also noted that today Ukraine is ‘defending not only itself’ but also ‘the principles of freedom’ and the whole of Europe.

Shmyhal and Plenkovic met on Wednesday, 29 January. On that day, they discussed how to speed up peace and punish Russia.

Plenkovic said that the Croatian government would approve the 12th package of military aid to Ukraine at a meeting on Thursday.

Shmyhal thanked the ‘Croatian people’ for their help in all aspects.

‘Together we are writing the history of Europe - Europe of development, democratic Europe,’ he said. 

Shmyhal said that they also agreed to explore the possibility of creating a joint Ukrainian-Croatian working group to monitor the illegal activities of the Russian ‘shadow fleet’.

‘We will work to make Russia pay for its aggression. Croatia is already supporting the work of the International Register of Losses and our aspirations to ensure that all frozen Russian assets are fully confiscated and used to support our resilience, defence and recovery,’ the Head of the Ukrainian Government concluded.