Reichstag, Berlin. File photoATHENA, Jun 1Germany will provide Greece with old armored vehicles, discontinued and without ammunition, in exchange for Soviet-made BMP-1s sent to Ukraine with all weapons, writes the ieidiseis.gr portal. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said at a briefing after the EU summit on Tuesday that Greece will transfer tanks to Ukraine Soviet-style, Berlin will provide Athens with its armored vehicles to replace it. According to Scholz, he agreed on this with the Greek Prime Minister at a meeting in Brussels. This caused a scandal as Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis covered up the decision to send armored vehicles to Ukraine at a press conference after the summit. The Greek Ministry of Defense announced that instead of the GDR-made BMP-1 received in 1994, Greece will receive an equal number of German-made Marder armored fighting vehicles.The German Defense Ministry has reduced the list of weapons for Ukraine, media reportedGreek government spokesman Yannis Ikonomou, in an interview with Skai on Wednesday, said that Greece is sending to Ukraine obsolete and obsolete armored personnel carriers, which are 40-50 years old, and will receive in return «new modern German armored vehicles that are three or four generations ahead.» The news portal ieidiseis.gr writes that the «almost unarmed German Marders» of the same age as the BMP-1 proposed by Germany, their production has long stopped, and there is not enough ammunition for them «.» The Marder has a 20mm cannon, but its ammunition is not compatible with conventional 20mm ammunition. Regular ammunition is 30x202mm, for the Marder it is 20x139mm and is produced only by the German companies Nexter and Reinmentall. That is, in order to take advantage of the proposed Marders, Greece must purchase ammunition not from the Greek company Greek Defense Systems, but from a hundred be the customer of these German companies. But, according to market research, both German manufacturers stopped the production line a long time ago,” the portal writes. hollow armor and at the same time officially start negotiations with German firms on the unnecessary modernization of Leopard tanks worth 2 billion euros,» the report says. The publication notes that Greece is exchanging Russian-made BMP-1s for almost unarmed German Marders of the same age, despite the fact that for many years the ruling New Democracy party has rejected offers to buy Marders from the countries of the Middle East and Africa at a reasonable price. jpg» />The FRG urged Ukraine to listen to Kissinger's words about concessions to Russia
