“Let me once again express my country's solidarity with the Ukrainian people, who are once again suffering from massive Russian missile and drone attacks against civilians,” Mitsotakis said, condemning Russian aggression as a gross violation of international humanitarian law.

He also outlined an ambitious project to connect the port of Alexandroupolis via Varna and Constanta with Odessa, covering rail transport, electricity, natural gas, and pipelines.

Ukraine, he stressed, has an inalienable right to defend itself against Russian aggression. Mitsotakis promised that Greece would continue to support Ukraine “diplomatically, politically, economically, militarily, and humanitarily.”

The Greek prime minister described Odessa as a symbol of Ukrainian resistance and called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire as a first step toward “a just and lasting peace.”

Mitsotakis also said that the Russian invasion was a violent geopolitical awakening that had exposed Europe's military insignificance, and referred to the EU's ReArm initiative and the SAFE mechanism for defense investments.

In a clear message to Turkey, he stressed that access to European funding would require alignment with the EU's common foreign and security policy, adding that the mechanism was created “to protect Europe as a whole.”

The summit ended with a one-on-one meeting between Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. І BGNES