The Minister of Defense has announced that Spain send friday to Ukraine two planes with offensive material in which a total of 1,370 anti-tank grenade launchers and 700,000 rifle and machine gun cartridges, as well as light machine guns, are expected to go.
“It will leave on Friday morning, by means of Air Force planes to Poland, at a point near the border with Ukraine and they will be picked up by the Ukrainian authorities,” explained Margarita Robles in statements to Antena 3.
The Minister of Defense has highlighted that this first shipment is “important” because it will allow “a very individualized defense” that it can be used by “people who do not have much experience in the use of weapons”. “The most important thing is unity among all. Ukraine is being attacked, the Ukrainians are acting in legitimate defense of their lives,” she defended.
This same Wednesday the President of the Government announced that Spain will deliver offensive military material to the “Ukrainian resistance”, thus reversing the initial position, and has defended that the Executive considers that in the face of “a European threat we must give a European, coordinated and united response”.
Regarding the change of position with the shipment of weapons, Minister Robles recalled that Spain has already sent humanitarian material and that Russia’s “unprecedented aggression” on Ukraine “evolves every day”.
Thus, he explained that the Executive considered that, “seen as events were evolving” and that “the attacks were greater every day” against the civilian population, recognize that “legitimate defense” that includes “any international legal order” and contribute to it with the sending of offensive material within “the framework of unity of the European Union”.
Source: Lasexta
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