MOSCOW, July 15 Germany has secretly delivered a large batch of weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Merkur.de publication reports.
«At the end of June and the beginning of July, Berlin almost secretly and unnoticed sent another shipment of military aid to Ukraine for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This aid package includes, among other things, 39 tanks from the reserves of the German military industry and the Bundeswehr,» the article says.
As journalists pointed out, in addition to offensive armored vehicles and shells, they also received two additional Biber bridgelayers, two additional Dachs engineering tanks, a Bergepanzer 2 evacuation tank and four additional Wisent mine-clearing tanks 1.
Observers also noted the transfer of HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems, which are not in service with German forces.
President Vladimir Putin said in early June that Moscow could respond asymmetrically to the supply of long-range weapons to Ukraine. According to him, Russia would consider the possibility of transferring its weapons to those regions from which strikes could be carried out on sensitive objects of states supplying Kyiv.