Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias arrived in Odesa on Sunday at the head of a humanitarian aid mission into the southern port city of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said, according to protothema.gr.
The humanitarian assistance was handed to the city’s municipal authorities.
Dendias, 62, also aims to set up a continuous mechanism of distributing aid from Greece as well as reopening the country’s consulate in the city.
“The reopening of (Greece’s) consulate will help distribute humanitarian aid and set up corridors for the Greek ethnic community to leave from any areas of Ukraine, if needed, via Odesa,” the minister said after his arrival in Odesa, according to a statement from the Greek foreign ministry.
Missiles struck Odessa in the early hours of Sunday, the city council said in an online post.
Dendias said last month he planned to lead a humanitarian aid mission to the besieged city of Mariupol in Ukraine, where thousands of ethnic Greeks live, but intense fighting there meant the destination was subsequently changed to Odesa.
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