Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees that weapons provided by the West is not going to be used to assault Russian territory, Germany’s chief stated in an interview Sunday.
“There is a consensus on this point,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz stated in an interview with the weekly Bild am Sonntag.
Ukraine’s Western allies have pledged to arm it with precision rockets and missile methods, in addition to tanks, because it tries to push again Russian troops in its east.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has in contrast the intervention of nations reminiscent of Germany together with his nation’s battle throughout World War II.
“Again and again we are forced to repel the aggression of the collective West,” he stated Thursday on the eightieth anniversary of the Soviet victory on the Battle of Stalingrad.
But Scholz rejected the comparability.
“His words are part of a series of absurd historical comparisons that he uses to justify his attack on Ukraine”, he stated.
“But nothing justifies this war.
“Together with our allies, we’re supplying battle tanks to Ukraine in order that it will possibly defend itself. We have rigorously weighed every supply of weapons, in shut coordination with our allies, beginning with America.”
He said that such a consensus-based approach “avoids an escalation”. —Agence France-Presse
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
