The Ministry of Foreign Affairs protested yesterday before the Russian ambassador in Madrid, Yuri Klimenco, for some information disseminated from the official accounts of the networks of the Russian Embassy in Spain, with attacks on Spain and lies about the participation of the Spanish Army in the war from Ukraine.
Last Wednesday, the official account of the Russian Embassy in Madrid suggested that the Ministry of Defense had sent Spanish troops to the war in Ukraine. In a tweet, which took several hours to be deleted, a video was included in which four combatants appeared —without any Spanish Army insignia on their uniforms— speaking in Spanish from a supposed Ukrainian trench, accompanied by some statements by the head of Defense, Margarita Robles, in which she assured that “Spain is not going to participate in the war in Ukraine”.
That same Wednesday, the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ãngeles Moreno, summoned the Russian ambassador to the Ministry, and in the same communication he was asked to withdraw the published tweet, to which the Embassy agreed after a few hours. In that communication, Moreno summoned the ambassador for Thursday, in a meeting that was held yesterday.
According to diplomatic sources, during the meeting, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs expressed to the Russian ambassador in Madrid her “strong rejection” of this type of publication and initiative, since they do not adhere to reality, and represent propaganda against Spain that the Spanish Government is not willing to accept.
The same sources insist that the Spanish Executive has been involved since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, in aid to Ukraine, within the agreements adopted by the European Union and NATO, the Government of Kyiv, which has involved the provision not only of humanitarian aid, but also of arms, according to the conversations held by the Ukrainian president with the European authorities, or directly with Spain.
But Spain has not sent troops to the war that Russia is waging in Ukraine, and both the Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, and the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, have assured that Spain will not directly participate in the war, by sending troops , although it will maintain its material aid to the Zelenski government.
