© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Parked planes are seen at Boryspil Worldwide Airport after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022. REUTERS/Umit Bektas/File Picture
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(Reuters) – Ukraine has turn into progressively stronger over the previous yr and can quickly be capable to reopen Kyiv’s worldwide airport, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s chief of workers mentioned on Friday.
Andriy Yermak made the pledge whereas addressing diplomats at Boryspil Worldwide Airport exterior the capital.
“This return to the elements of peace is possible because Ukraine has grown stronger,” Yermak instructed the diplomats in remarks posted on Zelenskiy’s web site.
“We are now capable of providing security for this site. Thanks to our defence forces and our friends, your countries. I am certain that the symbolic boarding cards that you were given when you came in today will soon turn into real ones.”
Yermak’s deputy, Andriy Sybiga, instructed the gathering that the airport was the primary main web site to be closed in Ukraine as Russian troops poured over the border on Feb. 24, 2022 and can be the primary to be reopened as soon as situations permitted.
Yermak had invited the diplomats to debate parts of Zelenskiy’s 10-point peace plan, which requires a withdrawal of Russian troops, recognition of Ukraine’s 1991 borders and the institution of a tribunal to look at conflict crimes.