VIENNA, Jan 25 Germany supplies steel Leopard 2 tanks to Kyiv possible thanks to the «stick system» in NATO, said the head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control Konstantin Gavrilov.
«Not without interest, we followed the lively discussion within the North Atlantic Alliance on the supply of German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The international community has again witnessed how «stick discipline» operates in NATO. According to the canons of the «civilized West», at first the allies threatened Berlin with an international isolation in case of refusal to transfer «leopards». Then none other than the representative of the US State Department, Ned Price, announced «imminent news» regarding the direction of the German «beast» to Kyiv. This is how transatlantic «solidarity» is forged,» he said on Wednesday, speaking at a plenary session OSCE Forum for Security Co-operation
According to Gavrilov, since Berlin made a «conscious choice» in favor of «German tanks with crosses on their armor again attacking Russian soldiers,» the Russian side would like declare that these combat vehicles «will be destroyed and burned on the battlefield, as is now happening with the rest of NATO or ugly «zoo» in Ukraine».
«The same fate will befall American M1 Abrams tanks after the decision on their delivery — American colleagues need not worry about worthy «advertising» of the US military-industrial complex,» the head of the delegation added.
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