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Greece and Spain under pressure to provide Ukraine with additional air defence systems

Greece and Spain under pressure to provide Ukraine with additional air defence systems

MONDAY, 22 APRIL 2024, 09:59
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GreekNewsOnDemand.com comments: This is what we wrote on this subject in late Jan. this year… 

The political and military leadership of Greece has ALREADY approved the transfer of SUPPOSDELY “obsolete” weapons systems to Ukraine, and the Greek paper Kathimerini reported on  this on Jan. 27 this year.

 

 

 

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis the option to transfer or sell military equipment to Ukraine on Jan. 26.

The decision was made after the United States approved the sale of modern F-35 fighters to Greece. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered Greece the option of transferring or selling weapons to Ukraine in exchange for up to $200 million in aid from Washington.

Greece decided to transfer “outdated” systems and equipment that are no longer used by their army. Greece is armed with Tor, Osa, S-300 air defense systems, as well as ZU-23-2 anti-aircraft systems, and has reserves of ammunition for these weapons systems.

THIS, HOWEVER, is a BLATANT LIE because this site, GreekNewsOnDemand.com, visited the island of Crete in the Summer of 2019 and we spoke (see here) with the very military official that secured all this for Greece, especially the S-300 missile system which, according to HIM, is STILL VERY MUCH OPPERABLE and is NECESSARY for the defense of Crete as well as all of Greece against any and all attacks from…TURKEY!!!

THIS IS COMPLETE TREASON on the part of the Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis who gave away the S-300 system on order of WASHINGTON because they are…RUSSIAN MADE!!!

In a nutshell, the Greek government has ALREADY decided to SELLOUT Greece by giving away these critical weapons for the defense of Greece against the Turks but because this revelation first was revealed in Jan. of this year, there was an IMMEDIATE public backlash and the Mitsotakis’ government was forced to claim that this was “not true” and just “rumors.” But, as we can all see, the Greek gov’t is now being…PRESSURED by the US, EU and NATO to…FOLLOW THROUGH WITH THIS COMMITMENT WHICH THEY CANNOT DENY ANYMORE THAT EXISTS!!!… 

Now and according to the Financial Times, we read the latest on this subject…

Greece and Spain are under intense pressure from their EU and NATO allies to provide Ukraine with additional air defence systems.

Source: Financial Times, as reported by European Pravda.

Details: This month, Kyiv urgently appealed to Western allies to provide seven additional air defence systems.

Only Germany has announced the supply of an additional Patriot system.



Other EU leaders used last week’s summit in Brussels to personally urge Spanish and Greek Prime Ministers Pedro Sánchez and Kyriakos Mitsotakis to donate some of their systems to Ukraine, people briefed on the discussions said.

The two leaders, whose armed forces have more than a dozen Patriot systems plus others such as the S-300, were told that their needs are not as great as Ukraine’s and that they face no immediate threat.

Quote: “We all know who has them, we all know where they are, and we all know who really needs them,” said one source.

Officials said that Poland and Romania, which also have Patriots, are under less pressure to consider supplying these systems to Kyiv, given their more vulnerable location on the border with Ukraine.



Ukraine currently has at least three Patriot systems, including one from the US and two from Germany (this was before Berlin’s announcement on 13 April).

Pressure to donate the systems will intensify at a meeting of foreign and defence ministers from all 27 EU member states in Luxembourg on Monday, officials said. It is known that Kyiv is particularly interested in the outdated Greek S-300 systems, which Ukrainian forces already have in service and have experience with.

“There are countries who are not in an immediate need of their air defence systems, to be very honest. Each country is being asked to decide what it can spare,” said one EU diplomat involved in preparing the meeting.

The Greek and Spanish defence ministries declined to comment to the Financial Times. After meeting with Zelenskyy last month, Sánchez said Spain would “deliver new capabilities in 2024 to help Ukraine defend itself against Russian aggression.”

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday that he expects new air defence supply commitments “to be announced shortly” but did not provide any details on countries or weapons.



The German Foreign and Defence Ministers announced a global initiative to find additional air defence equipment for Ukraine in a letter to dozens of countries.

Earlier, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Ukraine had identified 100 air defence systems available in allied countries and was asking for at least seven of them to be transferred to protect Ukrainian cities.

SOURCE: https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/22/7452336/

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