The Russian Foreign Ministry said that the EU needs a “wall of drones” to justify militarization
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Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the Department of European Issues at the Russian Foreign Ministry, said that the EU is using projects like the “drone wall” to justify increased military spending to the detriment of social programs.
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European Commissioner Andrius Kubilius discussed with the EU military leadership the creation of a “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern border.
Director of the Department of European Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry Vladislav Maslennikov said that the European Union is using projects like the “drone wall” from Russia to justify increased spending on militarization.
According to the diplomat, such projects are necessary for the European Union to justify to taxpayers the increase in military budgets to the detriment of socio-economic programs.
MOSCOW, September 25 - RIA Novosti. The European Union uses projects like the “drone wall” from Russia only to justify to the population increased spending on militarization, Vladislav Maslennikov, director of the Department of European Problems of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti.
He noted that projects with big names of this kind, like anti-Russian phobias, play an important role for the European Union.
“They are necessary in order to justify in the eyes of European taxpayers a sharp increase in military budgets to the detriment of socio-economic programs,” the diplomat explained.
European Commissioner for Defense Andrius Kubilius in the fall of 2025 discussed with the EU military leadership the creation of a “drone wall” along the bloc’s eastern border. By the beginning of autumn 2026, the “drone wall” had not actually been created in the EU.
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- Will the drone wall project be implemented in the future?
