Posted in WORLD on 04/28/2022 07:46
Shipments of heavy weapons to Ukraine by European countries threaten security on the continent, the Kremlin stressed on Thursday.
“The tendency to arm Ukraine and other countries are actions that threaten the security of the continent and cause instability,” Russian Presidency spokesman Dmitry Peskov said at his conference that day.
Earlier, Russia warned that it would consider the weapons supplied by the West to Ukraine as “legitimate targets” for its armed forces.
In that regard, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this week accused NATO of “fighting Russia through its proxy and arming that proxy.”
Moscow also criticized the delivery of Russian helicopters to Ukraine for Afghanistan.
“The United States’ decision to deliver the above-mentioned ‘Afghan’ helicopters to Ukraine grossly violates international law and the relevant Russian-US treaties,” Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) said in a statement .
Britain asks West to send more arms to Ukraine
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain and other Western powers should provide arms, tanks and fighter jets to Ukraine as part of long-term military support.
Speaking at Mansion House, the residence of the mayor of the City of London (financial hub), Truss said the West “must be prepared for the long term and redouble our support for the country,” just as Russian President Vladimir Putin is doing in no place find to finance this “terrible war”.
“Heavy weapons, tanks, planes: deepen our inventories, increase production. We have to do all this,” said the minister, who believed that “the war in Ukraine is our war, it’s everyone’s war, because Ukraine’s victory is a strategic one that is essential for all of us.”
Bulgaria, a member of the European Union (EU), meanwhile, is among NATO members that have not yet sent arms to Ukraine, arguing that doing so today would mean interfering in and prolonging the conflict its parliament announced today that it will finally approve the delivery of arms to Ukrainian territory on May 4th.
“As part of the democratic world, we cannot remain indifferent to this tragedy and say that this is a unique Ukrainian problem (…). Ukraine is not someone else’s problem,” Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said.