The director of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, said on Monday that Ukraine needs “hundreds of tanks and not 10 or 20” to face Russian aggression and be able to return to the 1991 borders.
In a message posted on his personal account on the Telegram social network, Yermak added that only with more tanks and war materiel will it be possible to end the Russian occupation of Crimea and make the “enemy pay for his crimes.”
“That is why every tank capable of fighting must be in front [de combate]because this is not just the Ukrainian front, but the front of civilization against barbarism,” he added, noting that the common goal of democracy is “to ensure stable development.”
“Our common goal is to fight autocracy to ensure stable development and world order. Without a Ukrainian victory none of this will be possible,” concluded Yermak.
It is about sending Leopard 2 tanks to support the Ukrainian army, a claim that has been denied by Germany and that led the Kremlin on Monday to denounce “nervousness” on the part of NATO and its allies, in reference to the lack of agreement on last Friday’s meeting of the Contact Group for the Defense of Ukraine.
“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. All this shows how nervousness is growing among the members of the Atlantic Alliance,” said the Kremlin spokesman.
Dmitri Peskov referred directly to the statements by Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadusz Mularczyk, who, in statements to the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, that Germany, “by refusing to send tanks (Leopard 2) falls into international isolation.”
On Sunday, the new German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius reminded that the decision to send armored vehicles to Ukraine is a matter for Scholz.
Pistorius added that he expects the German-made military vehicles to ship “shortly,” without referring to a specific deadline.
“We are in a decision process and we have to wait,” Pistorius told German public television ARD, stressing that the jurisdiction issue was Scholz’s.
Peskov, positioning himself against international military aid to Ukraine, stated that “all countries that in one way or another participate in the shipment of weapons and the increase in the technological level of the Ukrainian forces, will be responsible.”
“The most important thing is that the Ukrainian people will have to pay for all these actions, for this pseudo-aid,” Peskov said.
Source: TSF
