We tell our partners, including Germany: If you want the end of the war as soon as possible give us Leopard 2 - Mikhail Podolyak in an interview with Tagesschau

Ukraine has the right to defend its territory and wants to restore peace, and this requires the support of partners, including providing modern weapons. This was stated by the adviser to the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak in an interview with the German news service tagesschau. de. “If we intensively break the defense line of the Russian army, the next step will be the return of territories and the destruction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.

And this requires a certain amount of armored vehicles, tanks. But these should not be ineffective Soviet tanks-neither T-55, T-64 nor even T-72. That is why we tell our partners, including Germany: if you want to take the leadership role if you want to have less losses, and if you want this war to end faster, then give us Leopard 2, ”he said Mikhail Podolyak.

The adviser to the head of the head of state emphasized that the Ukrainian military can very quickly learn to use a new weapon of any complexity that has been proven more than once. “There is nothing impossible for us. And we say: open the training centers, but under the abbreviated program, ”he said. Mikhail Podolyak stated that today the Ukrainian military on the front uses almost all types of artillery, which they did not even have close to the start of a full -scale war.

“Do we use them effectively? Did we learn how to use them quickly? So! We can do it right. And this is what we explain to Germany. I want to tell the federal government one very simple thing: we learn everything very quickly. But we will always emphasize that we have learned so quickly because the Germans were on our side, ”he added.

Answering whether there is a threat of escalation from Russia after the pseudo -referendums are held in the Ukrainian territories in the event of a successful counter -offensive of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak said: "What is it - escalation? Third World War? There is a country that uses winged missiles flying from the Caspian Sea and attack cities such as Lviv and Kyiv. The country that destroys civilian infrastructure massively kills people in Bucha, deprives life of whole family in Izium.

What do you mean by escalation and the Third World War? Exclusive use of nuclear weapons? But we use ordinary weapons. " The adviser to the head of the Presidential Office of Ukraine is convinced that the fact that Russia is a nuclear state should not stop Ukraine in the protection of its territory. "If we stop, they will at some point go on the tanks in the Dnieper, then to Kyiv and will also announce these cities by Russia. So we will completely lose Ukraine. There is no escalation.