German Chancellor Olaf ScholzBERLIN, Mar 4 No plan to deploy NATO missiles in Ukraine , German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told ZDF. anyone's plan,» Scholz said. Earlier, he reported that Germany approved the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Bild wrote that 500 Stinger missiles and 1,000 anti-tank grenade launchers arrived from Germany to Ukraine. On Thursday, the head of the German Ministry of Economy, Robert Habek, said that the ministry was studying the list of the Ukrainian side on the desired arms supplies. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, pointed out that the supply of weapons to Kiev from Europe would lead to even greater losses for Ukraine, as well as to the spread of these weapons in European countries. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine early Thursday morning, February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops, the civilian population is not in danger. With the support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the DPR and LPR groups are developing an offensive. But the occupation of Ukraine is out of the question, the President of Russia stressed.
