Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged Monday to keep up military support for Ukraine for as long as it takes and to help with post-war reconstruction.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy suggested that might mean Greece could help train his country's fighter pilots on new Western aircraft, though Greek officials did not comment.
Mitsotakis also said NATO-member Greece would participate in the “titanic” task of reconstruction in Ukraine when the fighting is over. Greek officials did not respond to requests for comment, and Mitsotakis made no reference to pilot training. The dinner was to discuss the western Balkans’ future in the EU, which many of the region's countries have already joined and the rest are jockeying to enter.
But Athens has resisted pressure to provide Kyiv with a Russian-made air defense missile system stationed on the southern island of Crete. Greece is engaged in a substantial weapons procurement program of its own amid testy relations with neighboring Turkey — its NATO ally and historic regional rival.
A notable absence was Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama. Relations between Greece and its northwestern neighbor have soured over the jailing of ethnic Greek minority leader Fredi Beleri, who was arrested before local elections in May on vote-buying allegations.
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