Russia rips “blatant provocation” as Germany confirms it is sending battle tanks to help Ukraine in the war.
It is seen as a major turning point in Western support as it is the first supply of weapons that have a mainly offensive rather than defensive purpose.
“These tanks will burn down just like all the other ones. … Except they cost a lot, and this will fall on the shoulders of European taxpayers,” he added. “We have a superiority in tactical nuclear weapons. Why have them if we can’t use them?” he added Wednesday, according to aHe credited the threat of nukes for slowing the supply of tanks from the West, whom he called “Ukro-Nazis” and “Nazi dirtbags” meddling in a “holy war.”
“German-made tanks will face off against Russian tanks in Ukraine once more,” said Ekkehard Brose, head of the German military’s Federal Academy for Security Policy.
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