NATO’s secretary general on Wednesday opined that Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and allow other countries to do so will help Kiev “win and triumph as an independent nation” .
Jens Stoltenberg praised German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s decision “and Germany to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 tanks in consultation with other” North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states and partners, according to a publication on the social network Twitter.
“At a critical moment in the Russian war, this one [tanques] can help Ukraine defend itself, win and triumph as an independent nation,” the secretary general of the military alliance added in the same message.
Berlin announced today that it will authorize the deployment of these combat vehicles on Ukrainian territory to help Kiev suppress the Russian offensive.
“This decision is in line with our well-known line of supporting Ukraine to the best of our ability. We are acting internationally in a very coordinated manner,” said the German chancellor, quoted by executive branch spokesman Steffen Hebestreit.
Germany has been under pressure for weeks from several countries that are part of NATO, namely the United States of America, to send these combat vehicles.
Other countries, for example Poland, could only send these German-made tanks to Ukraine with permission from Berlin.
The Kremlin (Russian Presidency) has insisted that the sending of such combat vehicles can be considered NATO involvement in the conflict.
The possibility of the conflict escalating into a war of global scale weighs any decision by NATO to help Kiev, so that it is not interpreted as a direct involvement of the military alliance in the invasion of the Russian Federation some time ago. deployed. almost a year.
The Russian military offensive on Ukrainian territory, launched on February 24 last year, plunged Europe into what is considered the most serious security crisis since World War II (1939-1945).
Source: DN
