Flags on the Bundestag building in Berlin, GermanyBERLIN, Apr 3The Welt publication, citing sources and a letter from the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, writes that Germany refused to supply Kiev with 100 Marder-type infantry fighting vehicles in response to a request from Kyiv received last week. a letter to the German Ministry of Defense, asking for the transfer of 100 Marder-type infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons. Sources in Kyiv told the publication that German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht rejected this request in a telephone conversation with Reznikov. The German defense department confirmed the existence of the request to the publication. «All of our Marder infantry fighting vehicles are bound by obligations within NATO, the issue of their withdrawal from positions in this case would have to be decided within NATO,» the ministry said, also indicating that the transfer of defense products is not decided by the Minister of Defense, but by the federal government as a whole. .Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu previously noted that the supply of lethal weapons to Ukraine by the West is irresponsible, and its uncontrolled distribution could pose a threat to European states. The supply of weapons by the West to Ukraine is a mistake, it increases the casualties, but will not affect the outcome of the operation, said Sergey Rudskoy, head of the main operational department of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on 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 the military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and, as of March 25, they have completed the main tasks of the first stage — they have significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass.
