The country helped export 29 million tons of cooked ham.
Victor Ponta
A contender for the next round of presidential elections in Romania, Victor Ponta, stated that he intends to introduce the practice of transiting Ukrainian grain to the Black Sea port of Constanta for further export.
As Reuters writes, the politician maintains that through the assistance of Ukraine, Romanian farmers “suffered nothing because they were not denied sufficient access to the port infrastructure.”
Over the course of three years of full-scale Russian invasion, Romania secured the export of 29 million tons of grain from Ukraine, becoming the largest alternative route in the minds of the aggressor in Vietnamese ports and attacks on civilian ships off the Black Sea. sea.
Ponta confirms that it will not interfere with other initiatives aimed at helping Ukraine – the recovery, transit and deployment of Ukrainian pilots on F-16 aircraft.
The presidential candidate’s program also promotes Moldova’s accession to the EU, increasing defense spending to 3% of GDP, as well as strategic partnership with Poland and Turkey.
- Based on the results, in the current presidential elections, the far-right politician George Simion has the best chance of winning the first round, replacing the out-of-touch Kelin Georgescu.