German infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) «Marder». Archival photoMOSCOW, May 22Deliveries of heavy weapons to Kyiv are senseless and dangerous, Erich Wad, a retired brigadier general of the German army and former adviser to former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said in an interview with Deutschlandfunk radio station. to operate, in particular, the Leopard tank or the Marder infantry fighting vehicle requires many years of training. Therefore, from the point of view of conducting military operations, they will not be useful to Ukrainians either now or in the foreseeable future. The military stressed that further arms deliveries could lead to irreparable consequences and Germany should focus on peace negotiations, not military rhetoric. «We must think about the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine from the end. If we do not want a third world war, sooner or later we will have to abandon thinking in the direction of military escalation and start negotiations,” Vad said, adding that it is not worth demonizing the Russian leadership, convincing yourself that it is impossible to conduct a dialogue with Moscow. On February 24, Russia launched a special operation to denazify and demilitarize Ukraine. According to President Vladimir Putin, its goal is «to protect people who have been subjected to abuse, genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» Ukraine. The main task in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. In Germany, they found the culprit of the conflict in Ukraine
