Flag of Ukraine on the Verkhovna Rada building in KievBERLIN, Jan 16Ukrainians are disappointed that Berlin does not intend to transfer weapons to the country for defense, Ukrainian Ambassador to Berlin Andriy Melnyk told dpa. ambassador, Ukraine understands that the coalition agreement of the new government provides for restrictions on the supply of weapons to crisis zones. “But this political document is not a Bible. And now the world is facing a great danger of a large-scale war in the middle of Europe, the most serious since 1945,” Melnyk said. “We call on the German government and personally Foreign Minister (Annalen) Burbock to help Ukraine with the necessary defensive weapons «, added the diplomat.
Refrigerator and TV clashed in a deadly fight Earlier, Melnik, in an interview with the Funke media group, called on Berlin to abandon the existing policy on defense exports and supply defense weapons to Ukraine, threatening consequences for bilateral relations otherwise. that the German government still believes that the conflict in Ukraine can only be resolved by political means. German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Andrea Sasse added that «regardless of the restrictive policy on arms exports in general,» Berlin supports Ukraine «in numerous ways, including in the military sphere,» including the construction of military hospitals, the preparation of medical devices and military sanitary materials. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Kiev sent half of the entire personnel of the armed forces of Ukraine to the Donbass. Moscow expressed concern about the transfer of military equipment from NATO countries to the Russian borders and the increase in the number of Western instructors in the Donbass. Western countries continue to provide military support to Ukraine, including by supplying weapons that are used in the Donbass.
