The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that giving Ukraine air defense systems, as requested by the President of Ukraine in the United States Congress a day earlier, would be a destabilizing factor that would not bring peace to the country.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged US lawmakers on Wednesday to do more to protect son country of russia pushing invasion for taxation of a no-fly zone and request for planes and defensive systems.
“Such deliveries (…) would be a destabilizing factor that will certainly not bring peace to Ukraine,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. news Report.
“In the long run they could have a lot more dangerous consequences,” she said. added.
The United States and its allies want for avoid NATO being drawn in the Ukrainian conflict, but they provided Kyiv with military help since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24.
Moscow is calling son offensive in Ukraine a “special operation” to destroy that of son southern neighbor military abilities and capture what he sees as dangerous nationalists.
Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger on On Sunday, NATO could discuss sending the Soviet Union son countrymade S-300 air defense system to Ukraine.
