(15 Mar 2022) Italy signed a ten million euro agreement with Moldova on Tuesday to help the country - Europe's poorest - cope with the Ukrainian refugee crisis.
At a news conference in the Moldovan capital Chisinau, Italian foreign minister Luigi Di Maio said the aim was to help women and children and to protect the most vulnerable refugees.
The support is a collaboration with UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency.
Di Maio also announced immediate support in essential goods, with an initial humanitarian shipment carrying eight tons of aid due to arrive at Chisinau airport later in the day.
Moldova's foreign minister Nicu Popescu noted that over 300,000 Ukrainian refugees had entered the country since Russian troops invaded 19 days ago.
Of this number, more than 100,000 have stayed.
Moldova's population is two and a half million.
"These are enormous numbers and even greater if compared to the Moldova population, the number of refugees (who have stayed) represents 4% of the whole Moldovan population," Popescu said.
Millions of Ukrainians have fled their homes since the invasion began, with more than 2.8 million crossing into Poland and other neighbouring countries in what the U.N. has called Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II.
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