Greece’s Defence Minister has announced that the country, often menaced by Turkey, will no longer be shipping weapons to Ukraine, as it requires arms for its own defence needs.

Greece’s Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos stated this week that Greece has no further plans to send military equipment to Ukraine and argued that further shipments could weaken Greece’s ability to defend its own interests, particularly regarding islands in the Aegean Sea.

“The defence equipment we sent to Ukraine came from our stocks. There is no issue of sending more,” Panagiotopoulos told members of the Greek parliament, the news website Euractiv reports.

The ongoing tensions between Greece and Turkey remains a major issue, and frequent violations of Greek airspace by Turkish warplanes have continued through the Ukraine conflict. Tukey has even accused Greece of wanting to use the Ukraine conflict to attack Turkey itself — despite the European country having a population many times smaller than that of its Muslim-majority neighbour.