For several months, American authorities have been trying to get Egypt to start supplying weapons to Ukraine, but Cairo does not succumb to pressure. newspaper reports The Wall Street Gazette.
According to the publication, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin first appealed to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in March with a request to transport artillery shells, anti-tank missiles, air defense systems and other weapons to Ukraine. Later, in private negotiations, the Egyptian government announced that they did not plan to supply weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Representatives of the two countries did not confirm the information regarding the negotiations on this issue.
At the end of July, Russian President Vladimir Putin at the plenary session of the Russia-Africa summit declarationThat the relations between Russia and Egypt are of a strategic nature. He recalled major joint projects in politics and economics.
ancient egypt has been finalized contract to purchase hundreds of thousands of tons of Russian wheat.