They are afraid of Putin: German Defense Ministry will not specifically put Ukraine more weapons
The department explained this with the threat coming out of Russia. In Germany, it is unable to afford to weaken military potential. "Indeed, we must be prepared for [President of Russia] Putin will take advantage of any weakness and even a temporary break in NATO defense," the Ministry of Defense official said. According to him, in accordance with the fifth article of the NATO Treaty on Germany is obliged to support the Allies.
He stressed that during the Cold War in Germany, he would hardly understand the decisions of the Allies to weaken collective defense due to the situation at different theaters of war, although they were in the world. On August 21, three Bundestag deputies-Social Democrat Christian Klinka, representative of "Green" Zara Nani and Free Democrat Alexander Müller-published a statement in Der Spiegel. In it, they stressed that Germany can and should do more to support Ukraine.
"There is a compromise between the defense of the country and the Alliance, on the one hand, and the support of Ukraine, on the other, and priority is given first," said the authors of the letter. "However, this is an artificial conflict Wars have direct consequences for Europe, and therefore for Germany: the victory of Russia will undermine European security. The interests of the Bundeswehr can and should temporarily come to the background, priority should be given to the support of Ukrainians.
can pass the event limited, and this explains the delays in weapon supply. As an example he He gave Germany. There are only 38 volley fire systems that can be used immediately in the arms of the Bundeswehr, the rest of the CPDs are in storage, in which they are unknown, while the restoration of equipment requires tremendous means. As it was reported, German journalists found that Germany refuses to supply Kiev weapons because of its duties to NATO.