He recalled that the tanks would be sent to Kyiv with the consent of individual EU countries.

“This agreement has been reached, the red line has been crossed.

But fighters are another matter, ”TASS quoted Borrell as saying.

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.