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# Kallas urges EU states to send more naval ships to bolster Operation Aspides
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2026-09-28-kallas-aspides-naval-capabilities-call/
- Published: 2026-09-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-04T03:53:35.000Z
- Description: EU High Representative Kaja Kallas told the Foreign Affairs Council (Defence) that Operation Aspides lacks the ten ships it needs and urged states to send frigates to escort vessels through the Bab el Mandeb strait. She said she had no firm pledges yet.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #verified, #opinion, #ai-drafted

Verified Opinion AI-drafted [EEAS press remarks by High Representative Kaja Kallas, 28 September 2026](https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/foreign-affairs-council-defence-press-remarks-high-representative-kaja-kallas-upon-arrival-2%5Fen?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** The remarks do not establish that any member state has agreed to send additional ships to the operation.

**How this item counts.** No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0\. none moves; a verbal call for pledges, no ship yet committed. [European Sovereignty Index](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/sovereignty-index/)

**How this item was made.** Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. [How the record is made](https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/method/#how-the-record-is-made)