Ukraine’s presidential office director Andriy Yermak said on Monday that Ukraine needs “hundreds of tanks and not 10 or 20” to deal with Russian aggression so it can return to its 1991 borders.
In a post on his personal account on the Telegram social network, Yermak added that only with more tanks and war material will it be possible to end the Russian occupation of Crimea and that the “enemy must pay for his crimes”.
“That’s why every tank that can fight has to be in the front [de combate]because this is not just the Ukrainian front, but the front of civilization against barbarism,” he added, pointing out that the common goal of democracy is “to ensure stable development.”
“Our common goal is the fight against autocracy to ensure stable development and world order. Without a Ukrainian victory, none of this will be possible,” concludes Yermak.
At stake sending ‘Leopard’ 2 tanks in support of the Ukrainian army is denied by Germany and which this Monday led the Kremlin to denounce “nervousness” on the part of NATO and allies, referring to the lack of agreement at last Friday’s meeting of the Ukraine’s Defense Contact Group.
“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 of Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Arkadusz Mularczyk, who stated in statements to the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN that “by refusing to send tanks (Leopard 2) Germany is becoming internationally isolated”.
On Sunday, Germany’s new defense minister Boris Pistorius recalled that the decision on sending armored vehicles to Ukraine is a matter for 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 competence issue lay with Scholz.
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.
Source: DN
