There is already a figure. Spain will send six Leopard 2A4 tanks to Ukraine, which are currently being repaired because they were stored in Zaragoza in a "lamentable" state. This has been specified by the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in the Congress of Deputies, where she has intervened to account for the shipments of material that Spain has made since the war in Ukraine broke out, almost a year ago.
The Minister of Defense has gone to the Lower House for an interpellation presented by the Popular Party to specify the agreements adopted and commitments acquired by Spain within the European Union and NATO in relation to military support for Ukraine.
The spokesman for the popular groups in Defense matters, Fernando Gutiérrez, has reproached Robles that since the beginning of the war, the Government has acted with great opacity and lack of transparency regarding the shipment of weapons material.
"It has the obligation to report in much more detail; we cannot continue to find out from the press and our allies what it is going to contribute to Ukraine," criticized Gutiérrez, who has defended that Spain must continue contributing to the aid of the Ukrainian people.
During her turn to speak, the minister justified "prudence" when giving details about the donations made by Spain so as "not to give a single clue to Putin." As she has specified, the Government has carried out 54 transports during the last twelve months: 42 have been by air, nine by land and the rest by sea.
In them, there have been light weapons, heavy ammunition, anti-missile batteries, about twenty armored vehicles, about ten v
Light weaponry, heavy ammo, Aspide materials. Howitzers, Center of. 20 OTA vehicles. 5 naval systems. 10 light vehicles and even ambulances. The minister has also made reference to the fuel provided or to the generator sets sent to Ukraine, in which large Spanish companies have participated. In addition, winter equipment.
The spokesman for the Popular Party has also taken the opportunity to reproach the Minister of Defense for not having authorized the visit that the leader of the popular, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, intended to make to the Spanish soldiers deployed in Latvia. "Consider the refusal; you know it is a mistake," he asked, alluding to the "crazy excuses", in his opinion, put forward by the Government, which, basically, are that an opposition leader has never visited the Spanish troops in mission abroad.
