The Government will send 5,000 helmets, antibala vests and mines to Ukraine in addition to 20 tons of medicines and medical material, according to government sources to Europe Press.
The executive responds to the request that the Ukrainian government had arrived through the business manager in Madrid, Dmytro Matiuschenko, who had requested protection material for the Ukrainian population.
The defensive material will be added to the 20 tons of medications and medical material valued at 150,000 euros and that will be reached, via Poland, given that the Ukrainian airspace is closed as a result of the invasion by Russia.
The transport of humanitarian aid will be carried out by road with a cost of 10,000 euros, under the umbrella of a Team Europe initiative.
The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, has witnessed from the air base of Torrejón de Ardoz (Madrid), the burden of an A400M aircraft from the Air Army with that material to Poland.
Robles has also advancing that the government also prepares a hundred beds in hospitals in Madrid and Zaragoza in case it is necessary to bring injuries from the country facing Russia’s invasion.
The aid sent by Spain “urgently” will not be a detriment to the EU coordination, which will agree on a meeting of foreign ministers from its Member States this Sunday in the afternoon “Coordinated Mechanisms for Delivery of Material
“, according to Robles.
In addition, the Block will celebrate a meeting of defense holders on Monday to address the situation.
