The Kremlin noted “nervousness” on the part of NATO and allies this Monday, citing the lack of agreement at Friday’s meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine over the delivery of Leopard 2 armored vehicles to Kiev.
“All this legal juggling that we see, the exchange of statements between European capitals… We see how some European capitals, including Warsaw, threaten to isolate Berlin internationally,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
The head of Russia’s presidential office indicated that “all this shows how nervousness is growing among the members of the Atlantic Alliance.”
Peskov referred directly to the statements of Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadusz Mularczyk, who told the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN that “by refusing to send the tanks (Leopoar 2), Germany is entering international isolation”.
Peskov, who opposed international military aid to Ukraine, stated that “all countries that participate in one way or another in sending weapons and raising the technological level of the Ukrainian armed forces will be held accountable.”
“The most important thing is that the Ukrainian people will have to pay for all these actions, for this pseudo-aid,” Peskov said.
On Sunday, Germany’s new defense minister Boris Pistorius recalled that the decision on whether or not to send the Leopard 2 armored vehicles to Ukraine rests with Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
Pistorius added that he expects the German-made military vehicles to be shipped “soon”, without citing a specific deadline. “We are in a decision-making process and we have to wait,” Pistorius told German public television ARD, emphasizing that the question of jurisdiction was up to Chancellor Scholz.
Source: DN
