D-30 howitzers near Mariupol. Archival photoMOSCOW, June 11 Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnik said that deliveries of seven German howitzers to Kiev were scheduled for June 22. Earlier, Spiegel magazine, citing sources in Ukrainian government circles, reported that Germany had already are training Ukrainian troops to use Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers, and German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht confirmed that Berlin will supply Ukraine with seven such guns. the so-called «Gepards». This is also an old weapon — 30 units: 15 «Gepards» — by the end of July, another 15 — by the end of August, «Miller said in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of NV. He stressed that the supply of only these two of all positions previously announced by the German government are actually being implemented. Melnyk also said that the words of the German Chancellor about the allocation of military assistance to Kyiv for two billion euros are «only statement». According to him, practically everything that Ukraine has received from Germany so far has been «deliveries from the warehouses of the Bundeswehr», so the German authorities «spent nothing» of these two billion euros.
Media: Kyiv does not share information that will slow down the supply of weapons by the WestThe Ukrainian ambassador also said that the German government has been blocking the supply of 100 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Kyiv for six weeks under far-fetched pretexts. In particular, he quoted the words The State Secretary of the Ministry of Defense of Germany Simyat Melller that there is an agreement at the level of NATO member countries that heavy weapons, BMP and Western production tanks will not yet be delivered to Ukraine.
