PM: We are not asking for the offensive weapon, we are asking for the defensive weapon. Russia poses the threat to the European security, to NATO member-states and to entire free world

Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk states that we are not asking for the offensive weapon, we are asking for the defensive weapon to defend our country. He said this at the 8th Kyiv Security Forum “No Security Without Values. The 29th Story of Freedom” on Thursday, 28 May.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk stressed that unity between the EU and the U.S. is needed to respond jointly to Russian aggression, “We definitely need for you in the EU to retain unit on sanctions, including on the issue of sanctions. No doubt that sanctions have to be rolled over as Russia refuse to implement and execute the Minsk deal.”

However, he noted, there are a few EU members that use their veto to prevent from supplying lethal weapons.

According to Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Russia has spent billions of dollars in the last decade to modernize its military, to entirely overhaul its army: “And Russia is constantly supplying all this modernized heavy artillery and equipment to Russia-led terrorists”.

“We are not asking for the offensive weapon, we are asking for the defensive weapon just to defend the country. In case if you support Ukraine in making Ukrainian military more durable and capable, we are ready to protect your borders, I mean the EU borders. As Russia poses the threat to the European security, to NATO member-states, and to the entire free world. So this is about the defensive weapon to protect Ukraine and to defend Europe,” Arseniy Yatsenyuk emphasized.