Taoiseach Simon Harris has traveled to Ukraine where he met with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Mr. Harris, according to reports, said the war Russia has been waging in Ukraine is one of pain and brutality.
He said three children who were “probably asleep in their beds” had been “murdered” by an overnight drone strike in the city of Lviv.
During his visit, Mr. Harris laid a wreath at the memorial in Maidan Nezalezhnosti square in Kyiv.
The taoiseach said that Ireland’s support for Ukraine would continue to come in the form of non-lethal aid.
Mr. Harris also visited Borodyanka, a residential area outside Kyiv that was heavily bombed during the first weeks of the war.
Ireland has been a refuge for over 100,000 Ukrainians since the outbreak of the war.
Ukrainian refugees fleeing the war with Russia will “always be welcome in Ireland," Mr. Harris said.
Speaking at a joint press conference in Kyiv with President Zelenskiy, Mr. Harris said the world could never allow the war in Ukraine and the brutality it brought to “become normalised."
President Zelenskiy said he was grateful that more than 100,000 Ukrainians had been “warmly welcomed” in the Republic since the start of the war, the Irish Times reported.
According to the Times account the meeting between the pair comes at a time when many Ukrainian cities have come under increasingly heavy bombardment and with Russian troops making steady gains in eastern Ukraine.
The meeting also occurred at a moment when President Zelenskiy initiated the largest shakeup in his government since the beginning of the war.
