President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said the government should speed up the transportation of fuel from European ports to Ukrainian consumers.

Green corridor in the ports

This is reported by the railway magazine Railway Supply.

“The key task for government members is to speed up the transportation of fuel from European ports to our customers. The volume of such transportation should increase daily,” Zelensky said.

He noted that at present everything is being done to ensure that the state fulfills all social obligations, despite the budget deficit due to the destruction of the Ukrainian economy by the Russian army.

In turn, First Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy Yulia Sviridenko called the main problem the logistics of receiving fuel for Ukraine in Eastern European ports.

“If you look at imports, over the past five days we have been importing exactly the same amount, even a little more than we consume. Europe was simply not ready: not even in terms of resources, but in terms of logistics. Our bottleneck is ports, European ports,” she stressed.

“We have Gdansk, Gdynia, Swinoustse, Constanta, Burgas – there is a traffic jam. We asked Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba to get involved already at the international level – to ask for a green corridor for Ukraine in these ports,” Sviridenko added.

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