Monument «Motherland» in Kyiv. Archive photoMOSCOW, 15 Jun. Germany and France are betraying Ukraine with their restrained policy towards Russia and unwillingness to arm the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes James Snell, columnist for the British magazine The Spectator. As the columnist noted, the heads of both Western European states — Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron — are negotiating with Russian President Vladimir Putin and at the same time reduce efforts to support Kyiv, helping him according to the principle — Quid pro quo (quid pro quo).The United States announced the inevitable defeat of Ukraine Several months have passed, and Berlin has not yet transferred any serious weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Snell recalled. A month ago, the Germans announced the delivery of 50 Flakpanzer Gepard anti-aircraft guns and 155-mm howitzers, but they have not yet been sent to the conflict zone, the columnist specified. The observer also refers to the newspaper Die Welt, which obtained access to information from Ukrainian government circles showing that Berlin «deliberately» reduced the export of ammunition. «People even inside the smug and self-serving German bureaucracy called it a betrayal,» he says. Macron nor Scholz, which is quite unusual, did not make a pilgrimage to Kyiv. <…> Ukrainians are embarrassed, they get angry. They see deep-rooted German ambiguity making itself felt again, «summed up Snell. Against the backdrop of a Russian special operation on the liberation of Donbass, which began on February 24, the United States and its NATO allies continue to supply the Kyiv regime with military equipment. Moscow has repeatedly pointed out the attempts of the West to drag out the conflict by supplying military systems for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry has warned that ammunition depots will become legitimate targets of the Aerospace Forces in the neighboring country.
