The scandal of 500 million dollars for the upgrade of 5 naval cooperation aircraft P-3B Orion of the Hellenic Navy has come under the microscope of the prosecution authorities, with the protagonist of the president of ANEL party and then Minister of National Defense (2015-2019) Panos Kammenos. The Prosecutor's Office is investigating the possible commission of three felonies, including the crime of money laundering. Prosecutors are being asked to investigate the $500 million direct-order upgrade of the Navy's 5 P-3B aircraft, which should have been completed years ago, but still remains void.

Greek Defense Minister Evangelos Apostolakis referred to the need for the necessary coordination to address the challenges to the wider region of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East, while speaking from Herzliya, Israel, in his speech as the keynote speaker at the 19th Annual "Herzliya Conference," and he did not fail to warn of the possibility of these risks spreading if the coordination and cooperation he was talking about did not occur.

In statements shortly before leaving for Japan and the G20 summit where he will meet with Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Erdogan, talked about the ongoing developments in the Eastern Mediterranean, arguing that “Turkey and ‘northern Cyprus’ has rights in the region”.