The German Chancellor assured that there was a “consensus” with Volodymyr Zelensky on the use of the new weapons promised to kyiv, including heavy tanks and longer-range rockets. This is confirmed by the Ukrainian Minister of Defense.
There is “consensuswith Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to ensure that weapons supplied by the West are not used for attacks on Russian territory, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with the Bild am Sonntag.
Ukraine’s allies have taken new steps in military support to Ukraine, pledging to provide heavy tanks and longer-range rockets, among other things. These GLSDB (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb) rockets could almost double the range of action of the Ukrainian strike force, according to the Pentagon, which announced on Friday that they would be included in a new American military aid package. These small-diameter missiles fired from the ground can reach a target 150 km away and therefore threaten Russian positions behind the front lines.
The Ukrainian Minister of Defense went in the same direction this Sunday. “We always declare to our partners that we oblige ourselves not to use weapons (provided by) foreign partners against the territory of Russia, but only on their units in the temporarily occupied territories in Ukraine», declared Oleksiï Reznikov during a press conference in kyiv.
Western-designed heavy tanks have also been promised to kyiv, which expects to receive them.between 120 and 140from different countries. Germany will deliver 14 Leopard 2 tanks taken from the equipment of its army. “German tanks threaten us again“Said Vladimir Putin on Thursday, drawing a parallel between his military campaign in Ukraine and the war against Nazism, on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory against Hitler’s armies in Stalingrad.
No personal threat
“His words are part of a series of absurd historical comparisons he uses to justify his attack on Ukraine“, commented Olaf Scholz in Picture. “But nothing justifies this war“, he added. “Together with our allies, we are supplying combat tanks to Ukraine so that it can defend itself. We carefully weighed each arms delivery, in close coordination with our allies, starting with America. This common approach makes it possible to avoid an escalation of the war“, assures the German Chancellor.
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During the telephone exchanges he was able to have with the Russian president since the start of the conflict, Vladimir Putin did not “not threatenedPersonally, neither him nor Germany, specifies Olaf Scholz questioned on this point by Picture. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed in a documentary that the Russian president had “threat” mentioning a shot of “missile“. The Kremlin had refuted these allegations.
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