Controversy in Spain’s coalition government over aid to Ukraine

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, citing the German newspaper “Tags Shaw”, in Spain’s coalition government is at odds over military aid to Ukraine. Yolanda Díaz, the leader of the left-wing Somar party in the country’s coalition government, criticized the huge sums promised by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to Ukraine. On Monday, they signed a security agreement that includes military support worth one billion euros from Madrid to Kiev. This amount far exceeds Spain’s previous military support. Diaz, who is the second deputy prime minister and minister of labor, criticized this issue on TVE and said: These are very large amounts. He accused Sanchez and his Socialists, who are in charge of defense and foreign policies in the coalition, of lack of transparency.

Diaz added: “We only learned yesterday from the press that this billion euros was earmarked for Ukrainian arms.”

He emphasized: Defense policy is very important for our country and people have the right to speak in a public debate. According to Spanish media reports, the coalition cabinet in this country has approved aid to Ukraine, but has not specified the exact use of this budget. The beginning of the Russian war is overseeing the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, Spain has so far promised Ukraine military aid of 330 million euros, which is a small amount compared to Europe.

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