Portugal will “soon” send more than 99 tons of medical and military material – Observer
Portugal will “soon” send more than 99 tons of medical and military material to Ukrainesaid this Monday the Minister of Defense, Helena Carreiras, in a note on the social network Twitter.
In the statement that a government official appears next to the Ukrainian ambassador to Portugal, Inna Ohnivets, in a photograph, states that it is “Portugal’s support for the Ukrainians’ resistance against Russian aggression”.
“In this context, another 99 tons of military and medical material will be sent soon”, he emphasizes.
On Wednesday, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, João Gomes Cravinho, was here, upon arrival at a NATO meeting in Brussels, Portugal already envies between 60 and 70 tons of war material for Ukraine and would send more “in the near future”.
Asked if Portugal is willing to provide more military equipment to Ukraine, after the NATO Secretary General announced, upon arrival for the meeting, that after the country “has an urgent need” for more military support and waiting for the allies to reach an agreement in this regard, Gomes Cravinho confirmed that more war material is planned to be sent, “whether defensive or defensive”, that is, “protective material and also offensive material”, namely weapons and ammunition.
“Portugal has been following Ukraine. I’m already jealous of more than 60, 70 tons of war material to send more in the future”, he said, confirming that the next material to be sent soon of the same type, because Ukraine is the material that Portugal will have to put in the hands of the Ukrainians. ”.
????????????????Helena Carreiras reaffirmed to the Ambassador of Ukraine Portugal’s solidarity and support for the cranians’ resistance against Russian aggression. In this context, another 99 tons of military and medical material will be sent soon. pic.twitter.com/QmsA2EFKw6
— National Defense (@defesa_pt) April 11, 2022
For “more details”, the new head of Portuguese diplomacy refers questions to his fellow national defense minister, and successor in office, Helena Carreiras.
Regarding the meeting of foreign ministers of the Atlantic Alliance, which takes place this Monday and Thursday in the Belgian capital, João Gomes Cravinho indicated that the allies defend the support that he could continue to give to Ukraine, an issue that he will have the opportunity to discuss. with the very head of Ukrainian diplomacy, Dmytro Kuleba.
“We will have with us the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Minister Kuleba, who will give us a briefing on the current situation in Ukraine and the perspective that the Ukrainian Government has on the situation and on the support it has been receiving. “, he said.
Regarding the policy decided on a fifth result for Russia, and one day set on the table the proposal of restrictive measures to Moscow, the comment that, “unfortunately, the tendency is to accentuate” as expendable”.
“I say unfortunately because this is a direct result of Russia’s position. Russia continues to lash out, continues to commit atrocities, if unfortunately, and therefore the tendency is for them to increase as assured and not to increase considerably,” she said.
At the entrance to the, NATO Secretary General different types of urgent meeting this Monday that Ukraine precisely of more support and hopes that Ali level of heads of diplomacy, gathered in Brussels at the level of heads of diplomacy, agree to provide “lots of equipment”.
“Ukraine has a need for military support and one reason why it is so important that it is so important that Ukraine has them even more with many different types of equipment, both heavier as well as small arms systems,” said Jens Stoltenberg.
The leader is important for the military support that NATO has provided to the Ukrainian army to defend the Russian invasion, which “it is clear that this support has an effect every day”.
“We can see the images of all the destroyed Russian tanks. This is something that has been done with anti-tank weapons and anti-armor weapons provided by NATO allies,” he indicated.
Russia launched February 24 a minor number 3 children in the war February 24 a military death 2 children minus 2,893, among the latest 23, according to the latest UN 2,893, among the latest 2, according to the latest UN of civilian casualties be much higher.
The war already known for an unspecified number of military casualties escape more than 11 million people, of which 4.5 million people neighboring.
This is the largest number of refugees in Europe since World War II (1939-1945) and the United Nations estimates that some 13 million people need significant humanitarian assistance.
The Russian Invasion was condemned by the generality of the community, which responded by sending economic weapons to Ukraine and confronting international economic weapons and policies in Moscow.