UK warns Zelensky about arms shipment request: “We are not Amazon”

To the UK Defense Minister, Ben WallaceIt seems that your patience is running out. During a press conference held on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius (Lithuania), Wallace has suggested that Ukraine should show a little more appreciation. for military and financial support that the allies have been offering since the beginning of the war.

“We are not Amazon,” he has sentenced. These statements come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky harshly criticized the Alliance for not having issued a firm schedule or specified a list of conditions so that your country can join NATO.

“Here’s a little warning: like it or not, people want to see gratitude. My advice to the Ukrainians: you need to persuade countries to give up your own arsenals“, Wallace has pointed out in statements collected by the Efe agency.

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Despite these suggestions, Wallece has rejected the UK withdrawing or reducing its support for kyiv. “your war it’s a war noble and we see it as if you are waging a war not only for yourselves but for our freedoms. But sometimes you have to persuade lawmakers on Capitol Hill in the United States, you have to persuade doubting politicians in other countries that it’s worth it and that they’re getting something for it. Like it or not, that’s the reality.“, he has qualified.

Apparently, this is not the first time that the British Defense Minister has addressed the Ukrainian government in these terms. In fact, he warned as much last year: “I already told you, when I took an 11-hour drive to kyiv to get give a list with requeststhat I am not Amazon,” Wallace assured, according to the British channel Sky News.

Previously, Zelensky had met with the British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, to transmit your requests. “We need to expand the capabilities of the Ukrainian army on the battlefield, in particular through long-range weapons and, in the future, modern Western aviation,” he said.

It has been precisely the premier who has tried to soften Wallace’s words. “President Zelensky has repeatedly expressed his gratitude to me and towards the british people and, indeed, towards other allies as well. He did it very movingly in parliament when he was in the UK earlier this year.”