Prime Minister of Latvia Krisjanam Karins, who arrived in Ukraine on an official visit the day before, called on all countries that have Russia as a neighbor to build economic ties without the Russian Federation, because economic cooperation with the aggressor country has stopped for a long time. He said this at a joint briefing with Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports..

Karins noted that not everyone in Europe has yet understood that the common European economy has changed radically and irrevocably, because cooperation with Russia has stopped not for the period of the war, but for a long time in the foreseeable future.

“This means that all of us who have Russia as a neighbor – I mean Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria – must understand that the time has come for new cooperation and new economic ties.. that will change the economic face of our part of Europe. Thus, a new north-south axis is being formed..

This will be the axis of logistics, new investments, new economic cooperation, and in this way we will be able to compensate for the losses that we all have from the fact that the direction of our economic activity and foreign trade has changed,” he added..

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Earlier, Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins said that after the war, Russia will not leave its imperial ambitions, so Ukraine, liberated from the occupier, should join NATO..