Russia is stepping up pressure on Ukraine by firing rockets at Kiev and new threats from Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to step up serious attacks on Ukraine if it is supplied with long -range Western missiles. “If they provide such weapons, then we will draw the right conclusions and use our ‘annihilation’ tools, of which we have enough, to strike those objects we have not attacked so far,” Putin said. an interview for state television “Rosiya 1”. The purpose of sending Western weapons is to prolong the conflict in Ukraine as much as possible, he said.
Vladimir Putin
As for US announcements of supply of Ukraine with Himars-type multiple ultramodern rocket launchers, the Kremlin leader reacted with redemption, saying that for Ukraine this does not change anything substantial in the distribution of forces.
Modern tanks for Ukraine?
According to an El País newspaper report, Spain wants to send German Leopard 2 A4 tanks and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine. Citing information from the Ministry of Defense in Madrid, the newspaper writes that these are obsolete tanks, which must first be returned to combat condition. The training of Ukrainian soldiers with these tanks will take place first in Latvia and later in Spain.
Tank Leopard 2 A4
This is the first time Ukraine has been supplied with modern Western tanks in the fight against the Russian army. To date, politicians of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), the ruling party in Germany, had stressed that there is an informal agreement between NATO countries not to send such weapons to Ukraine.