Ukrainian: Ukraine’s security depends on partnership with ‘real friends’ like Turkey

Dmitro Kuleba addresses panel with Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu in Lviv

The Ukrainian foreign minister on Friday said his country’s security depends on partnership with “real friends” like Turkey.

“As Ukraine is not a member of NATO, there is no security guarantee from other countries, our security depends on ourselves and now partnership with real friends like Turkey,” Dmitro Kuleba told a panel at Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, along with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.

He said Turkey helped Ukraine in the most difficult times, and that it is suffering from Russian aggression for the last seven years.