The British Defense Minister, Ben Wallacedeclared on Wednesday that he had warned Ukraine that its international allies “no eran Amazon”and that kyiv needed show your gratitude for arms donations to persuade Western politicians to give more.
London has been one of kyiv’s staunchest supporters since the invasion of Russia last year, and the prime minister Rishi Sunak has said that the UK and its allies they will double their support to Ukraine.
But Wallace warned that Ukraine had to persuade US lawmakers. and “to dubious politicians in other countries, that it is worth it”, and that “they like it or not, people want to see gratitude“.
Wallace spoke on the sidelines NATO summit in Lithuania in response to a reporter’s question about the complaints from the ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky that kyiv had not been given a deadline to join the alliance.
Wallace recalled that he had traveled to the Ukraine last year, where he was presented with a weapons purchase list.