Depot with weapons and ammunition of the National Guard of Ukraine, found on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. File photoBERLIN, June 14The FRG is negotiating with Poland on the supply of weapons to Kyiv as part of a circular exchange, there are agreements with the Czech Republic and Greece, German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht told reporters. «We have agreed on a circular exchange with the Czech Republic, on the transfer of systems from the Czech Republic, we are helping to compensate for this, we also want to do it with Greece now. We are negotiating with Poland,» the minister said, commenting on the situation with the provision of weapons to Ukraine. According to Lambrecht, the Ukrainian side «has received a lot «from the reserves of the German Bundeswehr, including UAVs, anti-tank missiles and other weapons.» If we did not have the opportunity (to provide weapons from the army reserves — ed.), We followed the path through the (military) industry, for example, in the case of «Cheetahs» associated with this training… and along the path of a circular exchange,» the minister explained. Earlier, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk confirmed in an interview with the Ukrainian edition of NV that Germany would transfer seven one howitzers and 30 Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft systems. He stressed that the deliveries of only these two positions out of all previously announced by the German government are actually carried out. that the words of the German Chancellor about the allocation of military assistance to Kyiv for two billion euros are «only a 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. The Ukrainian ambassador said that the German government has been blocking the delivery of 100 Marder infantry fighting vehicles to Kyiv for six weeks under far-fetched pretexts.
