A pair of Royal Air Force Eurofighter Typhoons. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 22New deliveries of weapons from Britain to Ukraine, bypassing Germany, will be a «humiliation» for Berlin, Yuriy Romanenko, head of political programs at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, wrote in an article for Glavred. According to him, the Ukrainian leadership developed a route for receiving weapons in advance, agreeing to use the airspace of Sweden, Denmark and Poland. that the Germans did not forbid the British to fly through their territory. «They and the Russians were specially shown that there is a solution, and they will do nothing about it. And that everything necessary will be transferred very quickly by this route,» the author concluded. Romanenko also announced legalization» of the route in the Baltics to obtain American weapons.WSJ: Germany blocked the transfer of weapons from Estonia to UkraineThe UK has previously supplied Ukraine with light anti-tank weapons. According to British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, the weapons received by Kiev are intended for «self-defense» and do not pose a threat to Russia. Kiev and Western politicians in recent months have argued that Russia has concentrated troops on the border with Ukraine. As Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov pointed out, the armed forces are moving within the territory of the state — this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone. Moscow stressed that statements about «Russian aggression» are being used as a pretext for building up NATO contingents in the border regions. validity of weapons from Britain
