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The president of the National Council Maja Riniker (PLR/AG) tells on Friday in the press to have had to spend two hours in an anti -ientomic shelter during her trip to Ukraine due to Russian drone attacks. The alert took place during his sleep on Friday at 01:30 am.
(Keystone-ATS) The Argovian was then in the city of Vinnytsia, in the center of the country, the last stage of his three-day visit in Ukraine, she said in an interview broadcast by the newspapers of the Ch Media press group. The national councilor Laurent Wehrli (PLR/VD), president of the National Foreign Policy Commission, also participated in the trip.
Ukraine suffered a new Russian aerial attack on Thursday to Friday, which caused the death of two people and injured 22 others, according to help.
A sign of the recent intensification of the Russian strikes in Ukraine, a UN mission announced Thursday that it had identified a record number of civil deaths (232) and injured (1343) for three years alone, in a war that has already made tens of thousands of deaths on both sides, including many Ukrainian civilians.
Maja Riniker, however, says he has always felt safe during his trip, because most meetings take place two floors underground. She recalls that this situation has lasted for almost four years for the civilian population. “It’s a huge charge,” she says.
Aid appreciated
During the trip, the president of the National Council met the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and members of the Ukrainian parliament. She also visited assistance projects funded by Switzerland, especially in the Kharkiv region. The Swiss aid is very visible and appreciated on site, assures the Argovian. “The situation is disastrous, but there is a lot of strength. It touched me deeply ”.
Questioned in the time of Friday, Laurent Wehrli abounds in the same direction. “Our Ukrainian parliamentary colleagues are sensitive to the fact that Swiss decisions are not simple political declarations. Once the aid passed in Bern, the Ukrainian reconstruction projects are immediately financially. ”
Switzerland’s position on arms deliveries has also been mentioned, notes Maja Riniker. She says she has briefly explained the concept of neutrality of Switzerland each time, which was accepted by the Ukrainian part.
Due to the uncertain support of the United States and the intense Russian bombings, “the Ukrainians want Switzerland to book arms”, explains Laurent Wehrli. “We recalled that our neutrality was not synonymous with inaction” and that “we want to help without compromising neutrality,” he adds.
