Sánchez rules out the direct shipment of weapons to Ukraine and avoids clarifying if it is an imposition of Podemos

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Faced with the almost unanimous position of the rest of the European countries to send offensive material to Ukraine to deal with the Russian invasion, the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, rules out the direct shipment of weapons.

He has said this in an interview on

, in which he has avoided clarifying whether this decision is an imposition by his coalition partner, United We Can.

Sánchez pointed out that Spain is acting in three areas: "Humanitarian aid through

and

peace mechanism fund

to supply offensive material.

Although the interviewer,

, asked him directly if Spain's position of not sending weapons is a demand of United We Can, Sánchez avoided answering directly: "The greatest gift we could give Putin is division, not unity," he said.

"What is at stake here is the questioning of security and the European project. The united response we are giving is important," he added.

He has also warned the Russian president that all the sanctions that the

is imposing on him "will last until he withdraws all his troops from Ukraine."

coalition partners

To date, the government's management of the crisis in Ukraine has been characterized by understanding between government coalition partners.

In fact, United We Can choose to set a profile and show its differences from the outside, as a political formation, but remains restrained in the

, where it says it is "satisfied" with the action led by Sánchez, despite the fact that the formation only has a chair in the National Security Council.

It is occupied by Yolanda Díaz.

According to government sources, Sánchez and she have maintained a "constant" dialogue since the Russian attack broke out.

This Monday, the

redoubled the pressure on the shipment of offensive weapons by the European Union to Ukraine to deal with the Russian invasion and criticized that this maneuver "increases the war escalation" of the conflict and goes in the opposite direction to the role " peacemaker» that the community countries should assume.

United We Can also criticized the decision of the

to prohibit media related to the Russian Government - such as

or

- from broadcasting content on European territory, something that was defined by the purple party as a "censorship" that "does not benefit » in no case «to the information».

And, as the icing on the day, the announcement by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, about the intention to increase the deployment of Spanish troops in the Baltic countries, as part of NATO's mission, to prevent aggression Russian.

A series of "legitimate" positions, they assume, but that do not resonate within the Government due to "responsibility" given the seriousness of the situation.

"Right now the priority is to build dialogue processes," remarked the national co-spokesperson for Podemos,

, about the announcement by the European Union to allocate 450 million of community money to send lethal weapons to Ukraine.

"From Podemos we believe that war cannot be waged in the name of peace," he said.

followed .

, from Izquierda Unida: «The role of the European Union should be peacemaker.

Military escalation is not an option."

And the Minister of Social Rights, Ione Belarra, concluded, more moderately: "War is never the way," expressed the general secretary of Podemos, who showed some alignment with the head of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, and pointed out that "in These days, the fundamental thing is to defend a common position and a clear commitment to de-escalation” of the conflict.

Sánchez's tone and his announcements advance and outline the president's intervention tomorrow in

, where he will present Spain's position regarding the conflict in

.

An appointment that, without internal noise in the Council of Ministers or a strong opposition as a result of the serious crisis suffered by the PP, is not expected to have a strong response.

However, both from popular ranks and from Ciudadanos it has been pointed out in recent hours that it is United We Can that limits the PSOE and prevents the Government's reaction from being "determining and forceful."

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