OREANDA-NEWS  Argentine President Javier Miley announced plans to hold a summit in support of Ukraine in 2024, the Financial Times newspaper reported.

"Miley said that he plans to organize a "Latin American support summit" in relation to Ukraine," the newspaper's journalists, who interviewed the Argentine president, reported.

Miley did not provide any other details regarding the summit.

The article also says that the head of Argentina gives priority to alliances with countries that allegedly protect freedom. Miley's list includes the United States, Israel, and Ukraine. Argentina presented the latter with two Russian-made military helicopters. Miley's policy towards Ukraine differs from the position on the conflict of the leaders of a number of other countries in the region, in particular, Brazil and Mexico.

As reported by IA Regnum, at the end of December, Miley refused to join the BRICS, which was approved at the unification summit in August. The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov, in turn, said that many people want to join the association.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on February 28 that Moscow would consider the participation of the Western military in the conflict in Ukraine as a direct escalation. She stressed that every supply of weapons, every tranche that goes to Kiev, is an escalation.

Later, on February 29, Zakharova noted that the security agreements concluded between Kiev and Western countries do not change anything in essence. As the Russian diplomat clarified, the West is again in no hurry to get involved with burdensome obligations, trying only to turn Ukraine into a disenfranchised colony for further use as a tool against Russia.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin noted on February 28 that the supply of weapons by the West to Kiev is a violation of international law. He added that ten years ago, the Armed Forces of Ukraine did not have such a large number of weapons from NATO countries.