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"Europe remembers its worst nightmares. Putin, leader of a nuclear power, invades a sovereign nation, breaking his promises and commitments and with arguments that bring echoes of a Europe victim of imperialist fantasies and historical hallucinations that we thought had been overcome."

With these words, Pedro Sánchez opened his intervention before the plenary session of Congress, in the presence of the charge d'affaires of the Embassy of Ukraine, Dimitri Matiuschenko.

Pedro Sánchez has focused on the united position of the European Union, comparable, he said, to that deployed in the face of the pandemic.

He thus recalled the humanitarian aid measures and the shipment of defensive and offensive material to Ukraine.

Sánchez has defended action under the umbrella of Brussels, which is not "a sum" of the efforts of the member states, but rather a united action.

And in the face of criticism from some parliamentary forces, he has assured that Spain will send offensive material to the Ukrainian resistance but has not clarified whether this delivery will be bilateral or under the umbrella of Brussels.

In addition, he has anticipated that Spain will request that Russia be included in the black list of tax havens.

What he has specified is that no troops will be sent to Ukraine, a territory that is not part of the Atlantic Alliance.

The President of the Government has accused Putin of trying to "fragile and divide" Europe because "he does not want its freedom or its independence", to the point of not hesitating to perpetrate a "blowing up of the democratic channels and carry out a deliberate plan to draw a map according to their interests" threatening European security.

And in the face of this, Sánchez said, we must "respond forcefully in defense of our values ​​and our way of life."

Putin is doing all this "with the only language he understands: that of war", asserted the president who has blamed the Russian president for having opened a "fierce struggle" against a model, the European one, which represents freedom and international legality.

Sánchez has branded Putin a "dictator", "tyrant" and "autocrat" who even subjects the Russian people to his imperialist designs with repression and arbitrary arrests.

And he has revealed the massive rejection of the international community to his actions.

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