WASHINGTON, Jan 23 Germany's unwillingness to increase military aid to Ukraine puts the question of the reliability of Germany as a member of NATO, said Republican Senator from Texas John Cornyn during his speech at the American Enterprise Institute.
«Hopefully Germany will find ways to increase support for Ukraine more aggressively, and I wonder what that could mean in the context of their NATO arrangements if the alliance were under threat,» he said.
Kornyn also wondered if the US could rely on Germany given Berlin's current approach.
Earlier, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland Arkadiusz Mulyarchik said that Germany would fall into international isolation if it did not agree to the supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
The new head of the German Defense Ministry Boris Pistorius, after a meeting of the contact group on support of Ukraine of NATO countries on Thursday, explained that Germany is not yet ready to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
Earlier, Russia sent a note to NATO countries because of arms supplies 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.