Through Saturday, a high level EU delegation is touring Ukraine’s Sea of Azov cities, studying highway building and railroad electrification projects.

Through Saturday, a high level EU delegation is touring Ukraine’s Sea of Azov cities, studying highway building and railroad electrification projects. Led by Thomas Mayr-Harting, regional managing director for the EU’s foreign service, and by Peter Wagner, director of the European Commission’s Ukraine Support Group, the mission will visit Mariupol, Berdyansk and Melitopol, giving press conferences in each city. With an eye to increasing EU aid to land routes in face of Russia’s strangulation of Ukraine’s Azov ports, the EU mission will meet Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan and Slawomir Novak, head of Ukravtodor, the highways agency. This spring, German aid is to rebuild the 226 km Zaporozhia – Mariupol highway.