With many Western countries declaring support for Kyiv with weapons after Russian operation in Ukraine Which entered its eleventh day, the Russian Foreign Ministry called on the European Union and NATO to stop these actions.
And announced in a statement issued by the ministry’s spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, on Saturday, that providing Ukraine with weapons means endangering international civil aviation.
“Reckless pumping of weapons”
She renewed the call for the European Union and NATO countries to stop what it considered “reckless pumping” of the latest types of weapons into the unviable Kyiv regime, as she put it.
It also considered that its request came in order to avoid the emergence of enormous dangers to international civil aviation and other transportation in Europe and even abroad, according to the statement.
Terrorists and criminals
Zakharova also ruled out the possibility that suppliers of portable anti-aircraft and anti-tank missiles to Ukraine would ignore the danger of these high-precision systems falling into the hands of what she said were terrorists and criminal gangs not only in Ukraine but all of Europe.
She pointed out that the emergence of anti-air systems such as “Stinger” or anti-armored “Javelin”, “Carl Gustaf” and NLAW on the black market and the arsenals of terrorist networks is only a matter of time, explaining that the “Stinger” system, for example, poses a great danger to aircraft. Civilian vehicles, while anti-armored vehicles are considered a serious threat to trains and infrastructure facilities, according to the statement.
It is noteworthy that the European Union had announced a full budget to support Kyiv with a qualitative weapon after the Russian military operation in Ukraine, and the United States followed suit as well.
Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine last Thursday (February 24), days after recognizing the independence of two separatist regions in Donbass, eastern Ukraine, which was met with Western condemnation and the imposition of economic sanctions on Moscow to force it to stop operations.