On Tuesday 28 November, the opening day of the ‘High-Level Conference on Ukraine’s Green Recovery’, organised by the European Commission in Vilnius (Lithuania, 28 November - 1 December), the European Commissioner for the Environment, Lithuanian Virginijus Sinkevičius, sent a message of “hope” to Ukraine, reiterating that the EU would cooperate and provide “continued support for the green and sustainable reconstruction” of a country devastated by “Russian aggression”.