Go to the media bankRepublic Square in Berlin. File photoBERLIN, Sep 19By supplying weapons to Kyiv, Berlin is essentially renouncing special relations with Russia that allowed it to mediate in Moscow’s dialogue with the West, the Russian ambassador to Germany told RIA Novosti Sergey Nechaev.
«In fact, the German authorities are refusing special relations between our countries and peoples, which were painstakingly built by previous generations and bound us even in the most difficult times. This is what always singled out the Germans from the ranks of the collective West, allowed Berlin to act as an intermediary, who knows and understands Russia and its interests better than others,” the ambassador said.
He recalled that the FRG had refrained from sending weapons for decades, more heavy equipment, into zones of armed conflicts. «There was a broad domestic political consensus on this matter. The practice has changed only now and only in relation to Russia. Of course, such a turn will negatively affect our bilateral relations. Especially when it comes to the supply of battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles , which is now being very actively discussed,» the diplomat added. According to him, the supply of German-made lethal weapons to the Ukrainian regime, which is used not only against Russian military personnel, but also against the civilian population of Donbass, is, of course, a «red line» that the German authorities should not have crossed «taking into account the moral and historical responsibility of Germany to before our people for the crimes of Nazism during the Great Patriotic War.» “Moreover, one must understand that this “red line” also existed for Germany itself,” Nechaev explained.
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