The Daily Populous Sunday July 14th, 2024 evening edition
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Ireland is preparing the first steps towards drafting a security agreement with Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on July 14, after meeting with Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris the day before.

Ukraine has recently signed security agreements with Poland, Luxembourg, and Romania, based on a pledge made by the Group of Seven (G7) in July 2023.

The Presidential Office is now working on agreements with Czechia, Slovenia, and Ireland, Zelensky said on Telegram.

Zelensky briefly stopped at Shannon Airport in Ireland on July 13 on his way back to Ukraine from the NATO Summit in Washington.

Harris said he had a "very good meeting" with Zelensky, and had discussed a potential bilateral agreement on demining, energy, humanitarian assistance, and food security.

Ireland has a policy of neutrality, is not a member of NATO, and has one of the lowest rates of defense spending across the EU, at around 0.2% of its GDP.

Its government has remained committed to not providing lethal military aid to Kyiv, but has recognized Russia's war against Ukraine as genocide.

The country has also taken in around 100,000 Ukrainian refugees since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion.

ItsTom___ on July 14th, 2024 at 10:29 UTC »

Russians gonna have to be careful starting their cars in the morning

the_blanker on July 14th, 2024 at 09:54 UTC »

Some time ago I've seen Russian tv propagandist showing chart of Russian nukes striking Ireland and it struck me as odd choice, why would Russia want to strike Ireland, it seemed totally random, but then I discovered that Ireland is not in NATO. It suddenly made sense.

eruditezero on July 14th, 2024 at 08:37 UTC »

I assume this means Ukraine is agreeing to defend Ireland as I have no idea how it would even work the other way around