Slovakia offers the Republic of Moldova humanitarian aid to the value of €50,000 for the Ukrainian refugees who are in Moldova. The batch consists of food products and medical devices, the President of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová announced in a news conference in Chisinau, IPN reports.

Zuzana Čaputová said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Slovakia will come on Friday to Chisinau with another batch of humanitarian aid intended for refugees.

The President of Moldova Maia Sandu said that over 400,000 Ukrainian refugees have crossed Moldova’s borders and 100,000 of them remained in Moldova, with half of these being children. A large part of the refugees were lodged by Moldovans in their homes. Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Moldova’s population has grown by 4%.

The official noted that she does not possess information about an imminent risk of war against the Republic of Moldova, but admitted that there are major security vulnerabilities. “We are situated close to the war, several kilometers away. We are a country with the status of normality stipulated in the Constitution, but this neutrality is not respected by everyone. We have a foreign army, the Russian army, on the territory of the Republic of Moldova. All these things surely generate vulnerabilities,” stated President Sandu.

She said the Moldovan authorities do their best to maintain peace and security in Moldova, but not all things depend on them.