MOSCOW, December 21. /TASS/. Athens has joined the PURL (Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List) program for European countries to purchase American weapons for the Ukrainian armed forces, Yury Pilipson, Director of the Second European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with TASS.
"As far as we know, Athens recently joined the PURL initiative for European countries to purchase American weapons for the Ukrainian armed forces, although the Greeks had previously been reluctant to do so," he noted.
He was commenting on reports in the Greek newspaper Kathimerini that the country is once again under pressure from the US and NATO partners to announce its participation in the PURL initiative.
The diplomat stressed that Greece, from the very beginning of the special military operation, has been "actively assisting the Kiev regime with weapons and ammunition." However, he said, the particular cynicism on the part of the Athens authorities is that they are well aware of the Ukrainian armed forces' subsequent use of these weapons against civilians in Donbass, the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, Crimea, and other southern regions of Russia, "where a large Greek community has long lived."
