European Commissioner: Ukraine should not receive all weapons for free

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency quoting Berliner Zeitung newspaper, EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton said in a TV interview with Franceinfo that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was wrong when he said that the EU would only give 300,000 of the promised 1 million rounds of ammunition. Yev has transferred.

He emphasized: The President of Ukraine did not consider the issue that Ukraine should buy some of the ammunition itself. Burton said: “The fact is that on March 27, EU member states decided to deliver one million bullets to Kiev annually.” He added: I said “delivery”, not “gifting”. The EU commissioner added that in his criticism, Zelensky only talked about free transfers, without considering that some of the grenades had to be bought by Kiev.

In 2023, Brussels announced that within 12 months will deliver one million bullets to Ukraine. For this purpose, 1 billion euros were made available from a fund and another 500 million from the EU defense budget.

However, all the grenades promised so far It has not been delivered to Kiev. This issue has been accompanied by criticism from Kiev that the European Union does not fulfill its promises. “Joseph Burrell”, the European Union foreign policy official, has identified the delay in the production of grenades as the reason for this. The American media company Bloomberg previously reported that the European Union will probably not fulfill its obligations to deliver one million pieces of artillery ammunition to Ukraine.

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