The officers of the Special Warfare Command of GEETHA will go to Poland to participate in joint training with a unit of the Polish Special Forces.
The Hellenic National Defence General Staff (GEETHA) refuted a report that members of the 7th Amphibious Assault Squadron would be sent to Ukraine.
"We are informing you about a press article titled 'Sending a team of the 7th MAK to the Ukrainian border' that does not correspond to reality," GEETHA said in an announcement.
"Two officers of the Special Warfare Command of the GEETHA will go to Poland to participate in joint training with the Polish Special Forces to exchange know-how and experiences in handling objects of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (drones).
"The action in question will be implemented in the context of reciprocating the corresponding joint training that took place in our country (from April 15 to 25, 2024) with the Polish Special Forces."
It should be noted that Z-MAK (Amphibious Assault Squadron) is an elite group of Greek special forces.
Meanwhile, Greece is set to decommission 32 older F-16 Block-30 fighter jets and transfer them to Ukraine, according to reports by Al Jazeera and not denied by GEETHA.
Sources cited by Al Jazeera suggest that Greece prefers to sell the 32 F-16 jets back to the US, which would then upgrade them before transferring them to Kyiv.
However, some military experts express concerns over the potential gap this would leave in Greece’s air force, which aims to maintain around 200 operational aircraft.
“The sale of 32 F-16s would create a significant shortfall. This number can’t be compensated for solely with modern and expensive fighter jets,” an anonymous air force engineer explained to Al Jazeera.
In addition to potential aircraft transfers, Greece has already provided Ukraine with 20,000 155mm artillery shells, Stinger missiles, and 40 Soviet-era BMP-1 armored personnel carriers.
The country is currently preparing to send four large transformers to assist with electrical distribution.
Greece’s strategic northern port of Alexandroupolis, offering a direct rail link to Odesa via Romania or Lviv, enables military equipment to reach Ukraine within 24 hours of offloading, ensuring timely support amid ongoing conflicts.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Maria Zacharova called Greece’s decision to send weapons to Ukraine “deeply mistaken” and “criminal”, warning that “in the end, the weapons will be turned on civilians, including the Greeks,” a reference to 150,000 ethnic Greek Ukrainians who then lived mainly in the cities of Mariupol and Odesa.
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