Ukraine will ask Brazil for ammunition for anti-aircraft tanks, Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksi Reznikov announced Friday, indicating that they will serve to protect grain warehouses from Russian attacks.
“I will send a request to your government because it has the ability to provide us with ammunition for the Gepard,” Reznikov told a Brazilian journalist at a press conference, quoted by the Ukrinform news agency,
The Ukrainian minister stressed that ammunition is needed for this German anti-aircraft gun system “for humanitarian missions”, because they serve to “close” the airspace to Iranian “drones” that want to destroy the logistics of supplying the grain stores.
“From these centers, grains, sunflower oil and maize are delivered to hungry countries. Therefore, if you give us this ammunition, we will protect the skies from terrorist drones” and “this will be a humanitarian mission on your part because we will save lives and people will not go hungry in Africa and Asia,” the Ukrainian minister argued.
Since the start of the war, the government of former President Jair Bolsonaro has declared itself neutral, although it met the Russian head of state, Vladimir Putin, in Moscow during a highly controversial visit and at the height of the fighting in Ukraine.
Ukraine awaits the official position of the government of the newly elected Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who won the presidential election on October 30 and took office on January 1.
During the election campaign, Lula da Silva questioned the “spectacle” he said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky would participate in and reprimanded him for changing the negotiating table for European parliaments.
“They could sit at a negotiating table for ten, fifteen, twenty days, a whole month to find a solution. I think dialogue only works if it’s taken seriously,” said Lula, who also represents the United States and the Union. blamed. The European Union (EU) to encourage a war in which “Putin is not the only culprit”.
Brazil is one of the countries with Gepard anti-aircraft tanks and an arsenal of ammunition for this type of armored vehicle.
Source: DN
