German tank Leopard 2. File photoBERLIN, Sep 4Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Sunday, suggested ways in which Germany could supply Kyiv with Leopard 2 tanks, the German news agency dpa reported. «We discussed this issue (delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv — ed.). We even proposed ways in which Germany could supply these tanks to Ukraine,» Shmyhal's agency quotes. these questions about tanks and other military systems for Ukraine.» He also noted that he is optimistic that the tanks will be delivered to Kiev. Earlier, Ukraine has repeatedly expressed dissatisfaction with the German authorities. In June, Aleksey Arestovich, an adviser to the head of Volodymyr Zelensky's office, stated that Ukraine had not yet seen the five thousand helmets promised by Germany. And subsequently, the dismissed Ukrainian ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnik, even posted on social networks a photo of a snail with a cartridge glued to the shell, the image was accompanied by the inscription «German weapons for Ukraine are on their way.»
Germany is using the situation in Ukraine to its advantage, they said in Warsaw In early September, according to the RND media group, the leader of the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party in Germany, Friedrich Merz, spoke in favor of supplying Ukraine with German Leopard 2 tanks, which the Ukrainian side is asking for . It is noted that Shmyhal called for the supply of Leopard 2 tanks. The German side also announced the delivery of several complexes of the modern IRIS-T air defense system to Ukraine. Russia had previously sent a note to NATO countries due to the supply of weapons to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo that contains weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation stated that the NATO countries are «playing with fire» by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping Ukraine with weapons from the West does not contribute to the success of Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect. >In the West, they were afraid of Scholz's «imperialist speech» about Russia and Europe
