“So far we have practically shown our help to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Beyond that, however, no move is going to be made – let me make this clear – that will endanger the country’s deterrent capability or air defense even in the slightest. We have many times made many refutations, I answer you categorically even today”, was typically the response of Pavlos Marinakis in the context of informing the political editors.
This month the Ukrainian side made an urgent appeal to its Western allies for seven additional air defense systems, such as US Patriot missiles or Soviet-style S-300s, as Russia steps up a campaign of air and missile strikes against Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure.
According to the FT, the other EU leaders seized the opportunity at last week’s summit in Brussels to personally urge Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Pedro Sanchez to donate some of their countries’ air defense systems to Ukraine, according to sources with knowledge of the discussions.
The leaders of the E.U. they told Mitsotakis and Sanchez that their countries do not need these systems as much as Ukraine, since, they said, Greece and Spain do not face any immediate threat.
The pressure for the deployment of air defense systems is expected to intensify at the meeting of the EU foreign and defense ministers. today, Monday. Kiev appears to have expressed a particular interest in Greece’s old S-300 systems, which Ukrainian forces know how to use.
“There are countries that don’t have an immediate need for their air defense systems, to be perfectly honest,” said an EU diplomat. who participates in the preparations for the meeting. “Each country is asked to decide what it can give elsewhere.”
The defense ministries in Athens and Madrid did not comment to the British newspaper.
A reason for “secret diplomacy” on the part of the government, said SYRIZA, on the occasion of a Financial Times article about “EU pressure on Greece, to grant S300 to Ukraine”.
The official opposition party asked the prime minister, in his statement, to inform the National Delegation, while criticizing the government representative for his comment that the government “listens and adapts to the comments of third parties and friends”.
The announcement of SYRIZA
“Following today’s reports by the government representative Mr. Marinakis in the political editors’ briefing, we call on Mr. Mitsotakis and the government to respond immediately as to whether or not the Financial Times article is true, according to which Greece was pressured at the Summit of the EU in order to provide the S 300 anti-missile systems to Ukraine.
The revelations of the FT confirm the existence of secret diplomacy on the part of the government as well as secret agreements in the making for Ukraine which Mr. Zelensky himself had revealed with his posts on social media thanking the Greek Prime Minister. Mr. Mitsotakis must immediately inform the National Delegation.
Also during the briefing, Mr. Marinakis said that “it’s a good thing that happens” when journalists or extra-institutional actors intervene to change or amend government legislation, something that the elected MEP candidate of the ND and supporter of the Houthi regime enthusiastically revealed slogan “Patris, Religion, Family” Mr. Autias.
In other words, Mr. Marinakis told us today that the government listens and adapts to the comments of third parties and its “friends” on critical bills, while systematically ignoring the institutional comments and amendments of the opposition in Parliament.
It is at least unfortunate that the Mitsotakis government and its representative, the SYRIZA PS, accuse Golden Dawn and its offshoots when it has included in its European ballot paper, a featured singer of Kasidiaris!
Regarding the “cruise” of the President of SYRIZA PS, Stefanos Kasselakis, Mr. Marinakis was probably confused with Mr. Mitsotakis’ dips in Marathi, at the time when the great crisis had broken out in the Middle East.”
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