MP Tengiz Sharmanashvili: Thousands of Ukrainians are paying the price for the EU bureaucracy’s political games

“Is Kallas claiming she will carry the entire burden on her own? Will she supply weapons to Ukraine herself, fund it, and claim American weaponry is unnecessary?” MP Tengiz Sharmanashvili, Deputy Chairman of the Georgian Parliament’s Defence and Security Committee, said.

Sharmanashvili was commenting on remarks by Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who stated that the European Union should be represented in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia by herself, European Council President António Costa, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

According to Sharmanashvili, thousands of Ukrainians are losing their lives to the political games of the EU bureaucracy.

“One of Russia’s conditions for negotiations is the lifting of embargoes and restrictions, most of which have been imposed by the European Union. Kaja Kallas is effectively saying, ‘Do not speak on my behalf.’ Yet the fact remains that Ukraine was pushed into sustaining prolonged military resistance against Russia. And that has been done using American weaponry, has it not? In that regard, the share of European weaponry is virtually negligible.

Is Kallas claiming she will carry the entire burden on her own? Will she supply the weapons to Ukraine herself, finance it, and handle everything without needing American arms? Regrettably, this reflects their attitude toward peace and human life. Thousands of Ukrainians are being sacrificed to these games by the EU bureaucracy,” Sharmanashvili said.