Taiwan will provide $8 million of help to Ukraine — Minister of Foreign Affairs of Taiwan
Taiwan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Wu told the Mayor of Ukraine’s capital, Vitalii Klychko, on April 22, 2022, that their democracies stood on “the frontline of resisting” large authoritarian neighbors as he announced a donation of $8 million to Kyiv and Ukrainian medical institutions.
The war in Ukraine has garnered broad sympathy in Taiwan, with many visible parallels between Russia’s invasion — which Moscow terms a “special military operation” — and military pressure from China, which views the democratically governed island as its territory.
Wu said Taiwan would donate $3 million to Kyiv city and $5 million to six Ukrainian medical institutions.
He also tweeted a picture of himself talking to Klychko, a former champion boxer, saying the mayor’s “fighting spirit” was admirable: “Champ, we’ll continue to stand with you & your people. Freedom will prevail!”
