As expected, increasingly tense tones between Moscow and the NATO states are to be expected after the “half green disc” from Berlin about the dispatch of the “Leopard” tank to Kyiv and the news of the approval by the European Union another military aid package for Ukraine in the amount of 500 million euros. The green light came from the Union’s foreign ministers’ meeting in Brussels, which added another 45 million to this seventh endowment of “non-lethal equipment” funding for Ukraine’s military training mission within the Union European. This brings military financial aid to Ukraine funded by the European Peace Facility (EFP) to €3.6 billion, plus member states’ bilateral funds, about which not everyone communicates.
Regarding the much-coveted Leopards, however, it should be remembered that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said yesterday that Berlin “would not object” if Warsaw asked permission to supply the German-made tanks in their possession to ‘Ukraine. Even if Chancellor’s Office spokesman Olaf Scholz emphasized that it is important that Germany “does not take any hasty steps that it may regret later”, it will therefore not be a hasty decision. “What is being fought in Ukraine is no longer a hybrid war, but a real war between billions. The sum total that Europe has provided so far for Ukraine, the West and Russia.” This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.
«When we talk about what is happening in Ukraine, we are talking about the fact that this is no longer a hybrid war, but a real one, the West has long been preparing for Russia and is trying to destroy everything Russian: from language to culture , which has been present in Ukraine for centuries and forbids people to speak their mother tongue,” he said at a news conference after meeting South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor during an official visit. Red hot words of the head of Russian diplomacy, repeated by the Vice-President of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev, according to which “the world is approaching the threat of a third world war in view of aggressive preparations against Russia”.
