ATHENS, Nov 3 NATO depots in the Kozani region of northern Greece in Macedonia, according to thestival.gr portal.
A convoy of 20-ton trucks with foreign plates passed through the village of Lefkopigi in the direction of Kozani on Wednesday night.
«Trucks with Bulgarian and Polish license plates are transporting in an unknown direction the ammunition they received from the NATO warehouse located near Rodiani. br>Residents of this area note that 20-25 trucks drove to the warehouses and back, and the Greek police confirmed the transport of ammunition without details, the portal writes. equipment on two S-130 aircraft. After that, Greece sent new shipments of weapons and military equipment.
Greek media wrote in early June that the Greek government had already transferred or was about to transfer to Kyiv an «incredible amount» of weapons and ammunition. For their transportation, six Greek C-130 transport aircraft, ten Canadian and five New Zealand ones were used.
BMP-1 armored infantry vehicles were sent in the fall.
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on November 16, after the contact group Rammstein said, that Greece will send 155-mm shells to Kyiv. Greek National Defense Minister Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos said in Ramstein that Greece had already provided Ukraine with 155-mm ammunition and BMP-1.
Russia had previously sent a note to NATO countries due to arms supplies to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect.