South Korea to Present Extra Demining Tools to Ukraine -Official

SEOUL (Reuters) – South Korea will present extra demining tools to Ukraine, a South Korean official stated on Sunday, following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s go to to Kyiv on the weekend the place he pledged extra navy and humanitarian support within the combat towards Russia.

“We’re considering to develop assist on mine detectors and demining tools as Ukraine’s demand for them was assessed to be desperately big,” Yoon’s deputy nationwide safety adviser, Kim Tae-hyo, advised a briefing.

Yoon made the pledge for extra support in talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Saturday in a shock go to to Kyiv after attending a NATO summit in Lithuania and visiting Poland, the place he expressed solidarity with Ukraine.

South Korea is a U.S. ally and main arms exporter but it surely has been resisting Western stress to assist arm Ukraine straight, citing enterprise ties with Russia and Moscow’s affect over North Korea.

In a press convention after the assembly on Saturday, Yoon has stated South Korea will present “a bigger scale of navy provides” to Ukraine this 12 months, following final 12 months’s provision of non-lethal provides reminiscent of physique armour and helmets.

(Reporting by Soo-hyang Choi; Enhancing by Michael Perry)

Copyright 2023 Thomson Reuters.