REFUGEES

Romania is better prepared to receive Ukrainian refugees, although there is no indication that their number may increase, the state secretary with the interior ministry Raed Arafat said in Suceava, north-eastern Romania. On Sunday the Romanian official travelled to the Suceava hub for a donation ceremony also attended by the French ambassador to Bucharest, Laurence Auer, and the Ukrainian ambassador in Romania, Ihor Prokopchuk. Fifteen fire engines and ambulances were brought to the hub by 40 members of the French civil protection agency, and further materials will reach Suceava in a few days. The largest French aid batch for Ukraine, consisting in over 1 tonne of pharmaceuticals, foodstuffs and intervention vehicles, has reached the Black Sea port of Constanţa Sud-Agigea.