The provision of emergency energy assistance to Ukraine, coordinated by the European Union, continues. The European Commission announced on Thursday 13 April that 169 electric generators, donated by the Australian Minderoo Foundation, have arrived at their destination.
This private donation, worth €1.95 million, was delivered from the EU’s ‘logistics hub’ set up in January in Poland to strengthen the RescEU equipment pool and speed up the delivery of crucial energy equipment from third countries to Ukraine (see EUROPE 13108/10).
This is in addition to the 1,000 generators already supplied via Poland which received €114.9 million from the EU to purchase the equipment.
In total, the EU has coordinated the delivery of some 3,000 electricity generators to Ukraine through donations from Member States, the private sector, third countries and its own RescEU reserves.
These generators range from the smallest, to power individual homes, to much larger models, designed for the running of public buildings and vital services such as hospitals.
In a statement, the European Commissioner for Crisis Management, Janez Lenarčič, “I would like to thank Poland for playing such a key role in getting assistance to Ukraine since the first days of this war, but also to the Minderoo Foundation for showing that support comes from far beyond the European borders”. (Original version in French by Aminata Niang)