The German ambassador to Russia was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry to comment after an exchange between German officers about arms deliveries to Kiev was spread on Russian social networks. Russian authorities reported on Monday, March 4th. An accusation that Berlin rejected a few hours later. “Our ambassador had a long-planned meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry this morning,” a German Foreign Ministry spokesman told reporters. Follow our live stream.
Leakage of secret conversations between German officers. Russian media broadcast a recording of high-ranking German officers discussing sending weapons to Kiev for attacks on Crimea. The Russian head of state wants to “destabilize us and unsettle us,” said German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius. This “is part of an information war that Putin is waging,” he added.
“We are waiting for an American solution.” There is a shortage of ammunition in Kiev due to the ongoing blockade of a $60 billion (55.3 billion euros) aid program in the United States. “We are waiting for deliveries that are vital for us,” emphasized the Ukrainian president. “Russia has lost fifteen military aircraft since the beginning of February,” he added. “The more Russian planes we can shoot down, the more Ukrainian lives we will save.”