Ireland allocates €125m aid package to Ukraine

The announcement was made as Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Micheál Martin visited Kyiv for a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Martin will meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other senior figures in the Ukrainian government during a one-day visit to the country on Thursday, where he will be brought around areas damaged by Russia’s intensifying bombardment of Ukraine’s capital city.