Spain will send a small number of Patriot missiles to Ukraine, El Pais newspaper reported on Friday, quoting unidentified sources.
Spain ruled out delivering anti-aircraft launchers, but will give Kiev shells, the paper said. The defense ministry did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
Spain has three batteries which it purchased second-hand from Germany in 2004 and 2014, El Pais said.
“We need to step up our commitment to Ukraine,” a Spanish diplomatic source told foreign reporters on Thursday.
Earlier ,The Kremlin said Thursday that Ukraine’s access to long-range weapons, including ATACMS provided by the United States, would not fundamentally change the outcome of the conflict, now in its third year.
That comments came hours after the State Department said the United States had secretly sent ATACMS missiles to Ukraine for use inside its own territory, and that the weapons had arrived this month.
“The United States is directly involved in this conflict. It is on the road to increasing the range of the weapons systems it already supplies,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.