Azerbaijan will ship $1 million in humanitarian support to Ukraine within the type of electrical tools to help the nation's vitality grid, President Ilham Aliyev's workplace introduced on Feb. 5.
"Relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine are creating on the idea of friendship and partnership," an announcement from Aliyev's workplace learn.
Azerbaijan beforehand offered Ukraine with a batch of apparatus for the restoration of the nation's vitality grid following the winter of 2023. Baku has additionally delivered a minimum of 10 shipments of humanitarian support for the vitality sector because the begin of the full-scale invasion, together with a minimum of 50 reserve energy stations and 45 energy transformers.
The funding will come from the president's allotted reserve finances and can enable the nation's Power Ministry to disperse the help on to Kyiv.
"In reference to the present scenario in Ukraine, the Azerbaijani state has repeatedly despatched humanitarian support to the Ukrainian folks," Aliyev's workplace stated in an announcement.
In latest months, President Volodymyr Zelensky has tried to kind nearer ties with Aliyev, offering Ukraine to function transit hub for Azerbaijani fuel to Europe, following the suspension of Russian fuel flows to the continent.
Azerbaijan, who has maintained historic ties with Russia, has seen relations with Moscow dwindle in latest months following the Dec. 25 crash of Flight J2-8243, which killed 38 folks. Aliyev has accused Russia of inflicting the crash, accusing the Kremlin of a "catastrophe" attributable to the "representatives of the Russian Federation."
On Feb. 4, an unnamed Azerbaijani official informed Reuters that the airplane was struck by a Russian Pantsir air protection missile after diverting from Russian airspace.
The Kyiv IndependentMartin Fornusek