LATVIA’S FOREIGN MINISTER WANTS PLANES FOR UKRAINE - AND SEES ‘MOMENTUM’
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29.04.2022


Politico (28 April 2022)

BY LILI BAYER, DAVID M. HERSZENHORN AND JACOPO BARIGAZZI

 

Riga is encouraging Western allies to train Ukrainian forces on advanced Western weapons and even send Western-made fighter planes as allies plot how to arm Kyiv for the long haul, Latvia’s foreign minister said Thursday. 

Speaking to POLITICO, Edgars Rinkēvičs insisted Ukraine’s partners were warming to the idea, which would have seemed unthinkable just three months ago. 

“I do believe that there is momentum to do things that probably we couldn’t do a month or two months ago,” the minister told POLITICO.

 

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