Borrell defends sending Ukraine “the heavy tanks it has requested”


He has greeted the Russian intelligence providers sarcastically: “Surely they’re listening to me to twist my phrases” “We should stop Russia from launching a brand new, very highly effective and bloody offensive in just a few months,” says Borrell. What weapons does Ukraine want? to win the struggle?

In the midst of the controversy on sending tanks to Ukraine, as claimed by Volodimir Zelenski, Josep Borrell, the High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, has damaged a spear in favor of sending them

Borrell is in favor of “persevering with to arm Ukraine” as a result of Russia has not but misplaced the struggle, as he said in Madrid throughout an award ceremony.

Mr. PESC, as his place is thought, has assured that “Ukraine wants the fight weapons, the heavy tanks that it has requested.” For this cause, he continued, “now could be the time to proceed arming Ukraine, with the required materials and army means to wage the form of struggle it has to wage.”

“We should proceed arming Ukraine, with the required materials and army means to wage the form of struggle it has to wage” (Josep Borrell)

According to the excessive consultant, that is “not only a defensive struggle”, Ukraine have to be helped in order that it will possibly “take the initiative and break fronts and forestall Russia from launching a brand new, very highly effective and bloody offensive in just a few months”.

For Borrell it’s “absurd to assume that Russia has misplaced the struggle or that its army is incompetent,” he warned, stressing that “till now it has been shedding the struggle however it nonetheless has huge power and capability to proceed doing so.”

He has additionally defended that we should keep in mind that “Russia is a good nation, an excellent nation that’s used to combating to the tip, nearly shedding after which recovering”, recalling that it already did so within the instances of Napoleon and later with Hitler.

Borrell, in the beginning of his speech, even allowed himself to be ironic concerning the Russian info providers. “I’m certain they’re going to be listening to me after which they’re going to use each phrase I say correctly twisted to place me within the worst of conditions,” he stated to applause.

The necessary factor is “how the struggle ends”

Faced with those that say that it’s not essential to assist Ukraine militarily for the struggle to finish, Borrell has argued that “the necessary factor is the way it ends.” In this sense, he has pressured that the secret’s that “Russia doesn’t win” and can’t flip Ukraine into “a puppet state” as is already the case with Belarus and ready to proceed at any time with its expansionist needs.

What Russian President Vladimir Putin seeks is to not rebuild the USSR however fairly acts motivated by “exacerbated nationalism” and his “will to rebuild the Russia of the tsars” and amalgamate the territories that he as soon as had. In line with this, he has warned of the hazard that every one international locations would wish to get better their historical past. “How many extra borders can they fly?” he has puzzled.

Borrell acquired the New Economy Forum 2022 Award this Friday on the Teatro Real in Madrid, the place he was introduced by the primary vice chairman, Nadia Calviño, and the previous minister Javier Solana, who praised his profession and his capability for work and dedication.