Greece begins deliveries of Soviet BMP-1s for the war with Russia
Greece begins transferring Soviet-made infantry fighting vehicles (BMP-1) to the Kyiv regime.
This became known after negotiations between the Foreign Ministers of Ukraine and Greece Dmitry Kuleba and Nikos Dendias, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
During a joint press conference in Kyiv, Dmitry Kuleba said that Ukraine is very grateful to Greece for this help.
“We especially appreciate the weapons that Greece is transferring to Ukraine so that we can defend our land. And it is very important that the long-awaited shipment from Greece of BMP-1 armored infantry vehicles for Ukraine has already begun. “Soon they will arrive in our army and will instantly strengthen the combat capability and defense capability of our country,” said the head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.
It is noteworthy that Kuleba and Dendias held a meeting in the basement of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and signed documents against the backdrop of heating pipes.
Earlier it became known that Germany sent the first batch of Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Greece to replace the Soviet BMP-1s available in Greece, so that they could be transferred to Ukraine. On October 16, the first six Marder infantry fighting vehicles out of a planned forty were sent to Greece.
The next 14 should depart in the coming days - until October 21. Athens, for its part, must give Ukraine forty Soviet BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles, which Greece received from the warehouses of the former East German army. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced such a “circular exchange” with Greece at the end of May 2022; the countries reached a final agreement in September.
Kuleba raised the issue of continuing cooperation with Greece in the military sphere and noted that the priority now is to strengthen air defense.
“Greece knows our request and will work on it,” he said.
However, earlier the Greek authorities publicly refused to transfer the S-300 air defense systems, which are in service with the Greek army, to Kyiv.
Как reported “PolitNavigator”, on the eve of Nikos Dendias’s visit to Kyiv, Greece warned its citizens against traveling to Ukraine, and called on those who are still in this country to leave it immediately.
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