Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has hit out at Ukraine’s “shopping list” for weapons, claiming: “We’re not Amazon.”
The gaffe-prone Cabinet Minister, once tipped as a future NATO boss, insisted President Volodymyr Zelensky should be more grateful for weapons sent to Kyiv by the West. Speaking to reporters on the fringes of the NATO summit in Vilnius, he suggested the regime should show more gratitude for the arms allies' have already sent, as the Ukrainian leader pushes for more supplies.
Mr Wallace said: “There is a slight word of caution here, which whether we like it or not, people want to see gratitude. My counsel to the Ukrainians is sometimes if you’re persuading countries to give up their stocks…” He added: “We are not Amazon, that’s true. I told them (Ukraine) that last year, when I drove 11 hours to be given a list.”
