Brazil. File photoRIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 29 The Brazilian army has denied RIA Novosti that it is negotiating with the German government, which, according to media reports, is trying to obtain ammunition for Gepard anti-aircraft guns and send them to Ukraine. «The ground forces are not in any negotiations on the sale of ammunition or components of the Gepard anti-aircraft system to Ukraine,» the ground forces said in response to a request from the agency. />MoD: Russian Aerospace Forces Destroyed Six Ukrainian Ammunition DepotsFolha de São Paulo previously reported that Germany had requested ammunition from the Brazilian government to supply Ukraine with a 1970s Flakpanzer Gepard that Berlin stopped operating in 2010. In 2013, the Brazilian army purchased 34 Gepard 1A2 armored vehicles from Germany, after which they unsuccessfully tried to resell them. 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 Kyiv 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.
