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"Ukraine consolidates partners to strengthen the strategic Baltic-Black Sea security axis and protect the security space, prosperity, respect for international law and democratic standards. In the coming years, the Euro-Atlantic community should give priority to strengthening this region," Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba said, delivering a speech at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, the Foreign Ministry's press service informs.

Kuleba outlined six priority cooperation areas to strengthen the Baltic-Black Sea region: strong economic ties and trade, energy security, integrated transport corridors, joint military and security alliances, counteraction to propaganda and cyber threats, development of people-to-people contacts.

The minister pointed out a number of steps that Ukraine is already taking to achieve this goal.

"Ukraine implements a proactive foreign policy, puts forward new initiatives, creates new regional alliances: the Lublin Triangle, the Associated Trio, the Quadriga. But the most striking example of a new, mature, and proactive foreign policy was the creation of the Crimea Platform," Kuleba noted.

The minister stressed that Russia's militarization of the temporarily occupied Crimea currently posed the greatest threat to the Black Sea region as Russia had more than tripled its military presence on the peninsula during the years of occupation.

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