Ukrainian diplomacy announces new “disappointing signals” from Germany, and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba rhetorically asks: “What is Berlin afraid of?”.

“Ukraine still needs disappointing signals from Germany [tancuri] Leopard and [blindate] Marder is to liberate his people and save them from genocide,” Kuleba wrote on his Twitter page on Tuesday.

He accuses that there is “not even a single rational argument why these weapons cannot be deployed, only abstract fears and excuses” and wonders “why Berlin is afraid, but Kyiv is not?”.

Dmytro Kuleba’s comment was made after German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht repeated a day ago that Berlin will not send tanks to Ukraine, recalling that no Western country has provided Kyiv with such equipment. Lambrecht also stated that Germany agreed with its Western partners not to take such a measure unilaterally.

Spain initially promised Kiev to supply its armed forces with German-made Leopard tanks, but in early August reneged, saying that the combat vehicles were in a “completely unsatisfactory” condition.

Russia accuses Germany of crossing the “red line” regarding military aid to Ukraine

Also on Monday, Russia’s ambassador to Berlin, Serhii Nechaev, criticized Germany for supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons, as the Russian front in Kharkiv collapsed last week, and Ukrainian troops also began entering separatist-controlled areas in the Donetsk region.

“Supplying lethal weapons to the Ukrainian regime, which are used not only against Russian soldiers, but also against the civilian population of Donbass, is a red line that the German government should not have crossed,” Nechaev said in an interview with Izvestia. a daily newspaper in Russia.

The Russian ambassador also spoke about the “moral and historical responsibility” of Germany “for the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War.”

In recent months, Russian television has launched several scathing attacks on Germany and its chancellor Olaf Scholz, as Berlin abandoned its historic conciliatory approach to Moscow.

Although he suspended construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline days before the outbreak of war on February 24 and approved the sale of Panzerhaubitze howitzers to Kiev, the German government opposed measures deemed too radical toward Russia, such as suspending visas for Russians. citizens

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