'Don't travel to Ukraine to deliver aid or take up arms', says Simon Coveney

Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney: 'The advice of the Department of Foreign Affairs to everyone is not to travel to Ukraine, whether you feel like you want to join the fight or whether you want to deliver aid, or whatever your motivation.' File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins 

Irish people have been strongly advised not to travel to Ukraine either to deliver aid or to take up arms, the Foreign Affairs Minister has said.

Appearing before the Oireachtas foreign affairs and defence committee, Simon Coveney also warned of "increased cyber threat" to Ireland as a result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.