Warning of the head of EU diplomacy: “If we no longer help Ukraine, we should start learning Russian”
Kaja Kallas, photo: Ludovic Marin / AFP / Profimedia
Russia is a “direct threat” to the EU because it has long prepared a “long-term aggression”, warned Kaja Kallas, a high EU representative for Foreign Affairs, in a debate in the European Parliament, according to The Guardian.
“We live in difficult and very dangerous times. Russia is already a direct threat to the EU. Russia violates our air space, it performs provocative military maneuvers near the EU borders, it targets our trains and airplanes, attacks our pipes, fiber optical cables and electric networks, not attaches the industry, including the companies, including the companies, To perform sabotage attacks and constantly consolidates its military forces and extends its nuclear arsenal, ”said Kallas.
She stressed that Russia spent more money on defense than all the states of the European Union in one place. Also, the Russia budget for defense exceeds all its expenses for health, education and social policies.
“This is a long -term plan for long -term aggression. Do not spend so much on the army if you are not going to use it,” Kallas said.
In this regard, she stressed that Ukraine is the first line of defeat, which is why the EU has to treat with priority the 18th sanctions proposed by the EU, saying that “each sanction weakens Russia's ability to fight in this war.” It continued by the citation of the Secretary General of NATO.
“We have to do more for Ukraine, but also for our own security. To quote my friend, NATO Secretary General, Mark Rutte: if we do not help Ukraine more, we should all start learning Russian. The stronger Ukraine on the battlefield, the stronger the mass, the more it will be to the Table, when it will be stronger when it will be stronger when it will be more powerful, when it will be stronger when it will be more powerful, when it will be stronger when it will be stronger when it will be stronger.
Despite Kallas's statements, not all EU countries are fully convinced of the need for radical increase in NATO's defense. AFP notes that Spain opposes suggestions that the goal increases to five percent.
“Many countries want five (percentages), we respect this … But Spain will meet the objectives that have been set us,” said Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in the margin of a meeting of NATO that took place in Brussels this month.
