“Who benefits from this – escalating the situation?
I am absolutely sure that it is beneficial, first of all, to those countries that escalate.
And I want to emphasize right away that no one gives us gifts.
This weapon is being sold to us in a hurry and at exorbitant prices.
Nobody said how much we pay for this whole thing.
They impose contracts under which we take loans.
Nobody is investing in us.
This money that we spend on loans, we could invest in our employees, in our factories, in our engineers.
We invest and feed others," TASS quoted him as saying.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the allies in the alliance have different points of view on the need to supply weapons to Ukraine.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced new deliveries of American weapons to Ukraine.