Ned Price clarified that in many cases the United States is willing to offer trade-offs to facilitate countries wishing to provide defense equipment to Ukraine.
During the regular briefing of diplomatic editors, State Department spokesman Ned Price made it clear that the delivery of a defense system to Ukraine is a decision that concerns the country that owns it. However, he was quick to clarify that in many cases the United States is willing to offer trade-offs to facilitate countries wishing to provide defense equipment to Ukraine.
Responding to a question from the Hellas Journal website about the possible sending of the S-300s of Crete to Ukraine and their replacement by the American Patriot system, Mr. Price underlined that “each country should decide for itself what it is capable of prepare and provide to Ukraine. And we certainly appreciate the many ways in which the international community, including Greece, has shown its support. There have been occasions when we have sometimes referred to them in public. You may recall that in the early days of this conflict, Slovakia made the decision to provide the S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. We were able to support the facilitation of this contribution, meeting Slovakia’s needs. There are some cases where countries are doing this and we’re not talking about it publicly, but we’re looking at ways through direct security assistance to Ukraine, the roughly $20 billion that we’ve provided from this beginning of the government, or in some cases what we can do , what we can provide to other countries so that they in turn can provide their (defense) equipment and supplies to Ukraine.”
The State Department spokesman acknowledged that there is general unanimity in the Western camp on the immediate need to strengthen Ukrainian air defenses, and therefore said that ways are being sought to better shield Ukraine’s airspace. As he noted, “we always refer the (relevant) countries to any contribution they make or may make to Ukraine’s self-defense, but we certainly recognize the deep threat Ukraine faces from the air, and that is something that also recognized by our allies in NATO, which of course includes Greece. It’s always a topic of discussion when we talk to our Ukrainian partners about what they need to protect their people and their country from air. It was a topic of discussion at the NATO ministerial conference in Bucharest late last month. And so, we continue to look for ways together with our allies and partners to better and more effectively help Ukraine protect the population and protect its broader infrastructure from these types of attacks.”
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