The Kremlin said on Friday that the United States can quickly end the war in Ukraine with a simple order to Kiev, but Washington does not want to do this, TASS reports.
The comments, made in the Kremlin by Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for President Vladimir Putin, came a day after former US President Donald Trump spoke out against sending tanks to Ukraine.
“FIRST THE TANKS COME, THEN THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Stop this insane war NOW. It’s so easy to do,” the former Republican president wrote on the Truth Social social network, which he launched in October 2021.
Trump later noted in a new address in capital letters that “if I were president, the war between Russia and Ukraine would never have happened, but even now, if I were president, I could negotiate an end to this terrible and rapidly escalating war within 24 hours.” . What a tragic loss of human life!!!”
The former Republican president’s comments came after his Democratic successor, Joe Biden, announced Wednesday that he had authorized the delivery of 31 American-made Abrams tanks to Ukraine.
How the Kremlin comments on Trump’s statements about ending the war in Ukraine
“Probably, in theory, Mr. Trump is not far from the truth: indeed, if the US president wants to end this conflict, he can do it very quickly, using his ability to give instructions to the Kyiv regime,” he told Dmitry Peskov during a daily press conference on Friday. -conferences after journalists in Moscow asked about Donald Trump’s statements.
“Washington’s appropriate instruction to the Kyiv regime is sufficient, and all this can be put an end to. Of course, not in one day, not in two. But the key to the Kyiv regime is largely in the hands of Washington,” said the Kremlin spokesman.
“At the same time, we see that the current head of the White House does not want to use this key, on the contrary, he chooses the path of continuing to pump weapons into Ukraine and so on,” he continued, justifying the former American president for the escalation of the conflict.
“We can agree with these words that there is indeed an escalation of tension. Escalation of tension occurs, among other things, because of those decisions that are made primarily in Washington and in European capitals under pressure from Washington,” Peskov emphasized.
“I mean the supply of weapons, tanks and so on, and the continuation of the current discussions [livrările] aviation,” he explained with reference to a Politico article published on Thursday, in which it is said that the possibility of sending fighter jets to Kyiv is being discussed among Ukraine’s partners.
New tanks for Ukraine from Europe and the USA
The Kremlin’s comments came after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday that his country would send 60 more tanks to Ukraine in addition to those already delivered last year and 14 Leopard main battle vehicles promised on January 11.
“Well, first of all, we try to lead by example. Poland sent 250 tanks or even more a year ago, being the first country to do so,” he recalled in an interview with Canadian television CTV News regarding Soviet-made T-72 tanks sent to Ukraine in the spring of 2022.
Back on April 25 of last year, Moravetskyi said that his government had sent tanks to Ukraine, but did not provide more information about it then.
“We are ready to send 60 of our modernized tanks, 30 of which are PT-91 models. 14 Leopard 2 tanks, which we have, are added to them,” he said.
The PT-91 “Tvardy” (“tough”, “hard” or “tough”) is a main battle tank produced in Poland as a modernization of the T-72M1 (an export variant of the T-72 tank produced under license in Poland). ), which entered service with the Polish army in 1995.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Wednesday that Germany will approve the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks from Poland’s armed forces to Ukraine, and the government in Berlin will in turn send a company of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
Soon after his statement, other European states also expressed their intentions in this regard.
NATO’s arms procurement and export regulations require that the country where a particular piece of equipment or weapon was manufactured must agree to its shipment to third countries.
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