“It is evident that Putin is willing to all: to the total conquest of Ukraine and the overthrow of President Zelenski.”
With these words he has exposed the Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, the Honda concern of her for the Russian attack on the neighboring country.
After expressing his concern and his “total sentence” in an interview granted to TVE, Robles has claimed “the toughest sanctions for Putin, which can not be impuned.”
In case there were doubts that the current sanctions seem insufficient, Robles has added: “All the rigor from the path of sanctions. The EU will take much more rigorous measures than it is taking so far, I am convinced.”
The minister believes that the Great Bay of the West is the “Unity”.
“If Putin was thought that he was going to find an EU and a NATO divided, he has found them united and in full coordination.”
“It is an attack not only against Ukraine, but against the values of our democracy,” has underlined the minister.
“We can not accept Putin’s impunity,” she proclaimed.
Asked about the possibility of sending more troops to the limitrophical areas with Ukraine, the Minister has highlighted that there are currently 350 troops in Latvia, 140 in Bulgaria and a ship with about 300. In total, 800.
The figure could grow, but in any case it would be “for all those measures that have a character of dissuasion and non-offensive defense to preserve peace.”
Never to attack.
Spain will not send troops to Ukraine, because this country does not belong to NATO and does not enforce Article 5 of the Alliance Treaty, which said that the aggression of a Member State involves the response of others.
“But the Ukrainian border will be strengthened and that of all the Baltic countries that are on the border,” Robles explained.
“In defensive missions, España will be there,” he’s apical.
It must be remembered that the government sends this Saturday, from the Air Base of Torrejón de Ardoz, in the Community of Madrid, the first package of humanitarian material, mainly medical and sanitary aid, Ukraine.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation, José Manuel Albares, pilot the beginning of this aid operation, which part of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID).
“We are going to try to do everything we can in a few circumstances that we do not deceive ourselves are the one they are, they are of war,” he said to the media.
“We have to have the absolute certainty that the European Union and NATO allies we will take all the measures that are necessary to guarantee security,” said the Minister, who recalled that NATO is “a defensive organization, not offensive
“, and it’s in that frame in which they are acting.
For its part, the Consul of Ukraine in Barcelona, Artem Vorobyov, has warned in an interview in the newspaper ‘El Nacional.cat’ that the humanitarian and military aid that Ukraine receives from the entrance of Russian troops into the country on Thursday ”
Unfortunately it is insufficient to stop Russia. ”
Asked textually if he believes that he is before a third world war, he has responded: “Yes, unfortunately,” reports Europa Press.
