Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis gave an interview to the Alpha channel’s main news anchor Antonis Schroeter.

The PM referred to the critical developments around the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the dynamic reaction of the European Union and the West, as well as the consequences, geopolitical, economic, energy, and other issues, that Greece will have and the wider region, as well as government actions in the emerging situation.

On Greece’s involvement in the conflict, Mitsotakis said Greece had done the ‘ethical thing’ by sending weapons to Ukraine.

The PM said Greece would send troops to neighbouring countries in the region Ukraine if NATO requested it.

Here are the main points the Prime Minister covered in the interview:

– Nobody expected that President Putin would decide to invade Ukraine

– We did not expect it because we are really facing a new world. It is the undoing of the regime of peace and security. We are talking about a new cold war and no one knows how it will end.

– Putin chose to impose his own way of life in another country. This concerns us all and that is why there has been this universal reaction. I am referring to President Putin and not to Russians because I believe that the majority of the Russian people did not want this war. Today Mariupol is under siege.

– A humanitarian catastrophe is taking place. It is absolutely imperative that hostilities stop now. Russia today is globally isolated. You saw the resolution at the UN.

– The effects of Russian revisionism will be paid for by the Russian people.

– The vast majority of expatriates chose to stay in their homes. We demand a ceasefire for the civilians to leave.

– The decision by Greece to send defence assistance is morally correct.

– There is no room today for Turkey’s revisionist policies.

– We will not get involved in the war.

– We did the right thing, as the vast majority of European countries did the right thing.