Demands to stop weapons supplies to Ukraine are naïve – German Defence Ministry
Boris Pistorius, Minister of Defence of Germany, considers the calls to stop armament supplies for Ukraine naïve.
Source: Pistorius in an interview for WELT TV during the Munich Security Conference (MSC), as reported by European Pravda
Pistorius criticised the left wing’s demands to stop supplying Kyiv with armament.
"The demand to stop armament supplies for Ukraine in order to stop peaceful negotiations is quite naïve and also guarantees that we will send Putin a signal: ‘We are slowing down, the path for you is clear’."
The German Minister of Defence also stated that he does not expect a big Russian offensive in Ukraine in the near future.
"There is a tendency to believe that. Personally, I do not believe in that," he said.
"I think that Russia is playing for time and wants to continue this war of attrition," the Minister explained.
Pistorius does not consider it likely either that Vladimir Putin, the President of Russia, will accelerate the pace of the war before more Western weapons, such as combat tanks, become available for Ukraine. "But I do not exclude this possibility," he added.
He believes that it is better to wait and see how everything will unfold because no one can understand the thinking process of the Russian President.
The Minister guaranteed that 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks from Bundeswehr [the Armed Forces of Germany – ed.] "will definitely arrive in Ukraine in the last or second to last week of March."
On 17 February, Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, in Munich called upon the international partners that have combat Western-produced tanks in service to send them to Ukraine.
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