Our country is not ready at this moment to send troops to Ukraine, the prime minister made clear from Paris, stressing that “the strongest guarantee of Ukraine’s security is the strengthening of the armed forces of Ukraine itself.”

“The common thread of today’s discussions is that we need to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible. Ukraine has in principle accepted such a ceasefire for 30 days, which still, unfortunately, Russia has not accepted. Therefore, all pressure at the moment must be put on Russia to stop military attacks against Ukraine, especially against critical infrastructure, so that we can first of all reach this ceasefire and then have time to allow Ukraine to negotiate a just and manageable peace,” the Prime Minister said at the outset.

“From there, the issue of security guarantees that other countries may provide to Ukraine was discussed. The common ground and position of the Greek government is that the strongest security guarantee for Ukraine is the strengthening of the armed forces of Ukraine itself, and I believe that all the countries participating in today’s conference agreed in this direction,” he continued, adding: “Greece is not one of the countries that are ready to send troops to Ukraine within the framework of the Alliance of the Willing and believes that all this discussion is possibly a bit divisive and does not allow us to focus on the main thing, to succeed in ending the war an hour earlier. This can only be done through a ceasefire.”