Athens makes it clear to the US that it is not sending troops to Ukraine
The war in Ukraine is, of course, to dominate the agenda of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’s meeting with US President Joe Biden on May 16 at the White House. Not only from the point of view of energy cooperation and given that the other major factor seems to want our country to be involved in NATO.
The message was sent last week by the US presidency and the US State Department. It is recalled that the White House recently received an impressive package of military aid to Kyiv, $ 800 million, which includes dozens of shells, ammunition, unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), Howitzer self-propelled guns and ammunition. But also an additional financial support package of 500 million dollars.
Re-elected French President Emmanuel Macron told the French newspaper Ouest-France that his country would provide Ukraine with Caesar anti-tank missiles and self-propelled grenades.
Greece, for its part, has sent “defensive material” to Ukraine, but on the one hand has clarified that it will not provide the necessary systems for the country’s defense such as the S300 and on the other hand has avoided the involvement by sending fighter jets.
Government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou, when asked today about US pressure for Greece to be more actively involved in Ukraine, as well as whether the issue will be on the agenda of the Mitsotaki-Biden talks, replied: “Our country has no involvement with a physical presence. in the war in Ukraine. “It’s a NATO member,” he said, adding that the prime minister and the US president would discuss all issues of bilateral relations and all major problems at the international level.
Greece, of course, as a member of NATO can be indirectly involved from the new base in Alexandroupolis, as the Thracian port, as characteristically mentioned in a recent article in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,“has been established as a transfer point for supplies from the West to the Black Sea countries, namely Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine “and has been designated as” NATO port “.
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