A senior European official said on Thursday 3 March that the delivery of lethal equipment from Europe to Ukraine, undergoing invasion from Russia, did not make it a belligerent in the conflict.
“We are not Russia’s enemy, we are Ukraine’s friend. It is not the same thing. We cannot be considered as belligerents by providing Ukraine with self-defence equipment”, he explained. According to him, the law of war does not qualify a country that delivers arms to another country that is...