Ukrinform
May 28, 2015
Yatseniuk to Europe: Help us with weapons and we will protect you from Russia
KYIV: Ukraine needs lethal weapons not to attack, but to defend its territory and the EU borders from the Russian aggressors.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk said this at Kyiv Security Forum on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reported.
“We ask not for offensive weapons, but for defensive weapons, in order to protect our country … We need to defend Ukraine. If you support Ukraine, support the creation of a more powerful Armed Forces of Ukraine, we will also protect your borders, and the EU, because Russia is a threat to the European Union, its security and the entire free world. We need weapons to protect Ukraine,” he said.
Yatseniuk added that the Kremlin is actively working to strengthen the Russian army. “In recent years Russia has been spending billions of dollars to modernize its armed forces, to conduct their complete restructuring. Russia is constantly supplying weapons to its armed forces,” Yatseniuk said.
He also noted that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is not a local, but geopolitical conflict, unleashing which Moscow has violated the Budapest Memorandum, and consequently, the nuclear nonproliferation regime.
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