Spanish PM Announces $710 Million in Military Aid for Ukraine
MADRID: Spain will give Ukraine a new military aid package worth 615 million euros ($710 million) to help it fight against Russia’s invasion, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a press conference in Madrid with visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Sanchez said that approximately 300 million euros will go to “new defense equipment”.
“Your struggle is ours,” Sanchez said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “neo-imperialism” aims to “weaken the European project and everything it represents.”
The announcement came after the leaders signed several bilateral agreements, including on measures to combat Russian disinformation.
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, tens of thousands of people, both civilians and soldiers, have been killed, millions have been displaced, and large parts of the country have been devastated.
Earlier Tuesday, Sanchez and Zelensky visited the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid to see Pablo Picasso’s anti-war masterpiece “Guernica.”
In April 2022, just weeks after Russia’s invasion, Zelensky compared it to the 1937 bombing of Guernica, a small Basque town attacked by Nazi warplanes in support of Franco’s troops during the Spanish Civil War.
Zelensky, who visited Paris on Monday, is scheduled to travel to Türkiye on Wednesday for renewed peace talks that will include Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and US envoy Steve Witkoff.
