According to Mitsotakis, Greece will not provide tanks for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, because Athens needs these combat vehicles for its own defense.

“We want to support Ukraine, but not at the expense of our defense capabilities,” RIA Novosti quotes him with reference to ERT.

Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that as part of the first wave of assistance, the Ukrainian army would receive 120-140 Western-made tanks.

The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that the idea of ​​supplying Ukraine with American Abrams and German Leopard tanks was a failure for technological reasons.