“We, SYRIZA, are here to once again renew our country's place on the international geopolitical stage.

Not as an advanced and insecure outpost of the West, not as a country that sends weapons to Ukraine and becomes a party to the crisis, but as a force for peace and stability.

A bridge, not an outpost, ”RIA Novosti quotes Tsipras as saying.

On September 16, the Greek Ministry of Defense announced that it would send 40 BMP-1s to Ukraine.

Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Western countries have not yet supplied Western-made tanks to the Ukrainian army, and Germany refuses to be the first to do so.