No delivery from tank or airplanes by countries Born to avoid a large-scale conflict with the Russia. After the revelations of the dpa agency, which relies on diplomatic sourcesAtlantic allianceAllies have reached an informal agreement not to broadcast a Kyiv Weapon systems that could be interpreted To fly as an offensive means that would have involved the 30 member states directly in the armed conflict. According to sources, the agreement was also respected out of fear that there would be none in the event of Russian retaliation full support by members of the alliance.
For this reason, Poland did not deliver its own in March Wed 29 to the army of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. To date, NATO members have not provided any Western-style tanks or fighter jets. While the member countries of Eastern Europe were sending Soviet-era weapons and equipment to Ukraine. A NATO spokesman did not want to comment on a dpa request and emphasized that every decision about arms deliveries is made by the individual member states.
News of the informal agreement comes as the German government from the Social Democrats Olaf Scholz he is criticized for low arms sales to Ukraine. On Sunday, the German State Secretary for Defence, Siemtje Mollertold the Zdf broadcaster that it had been agreed within NATO not to send any vehicles infantry or western tanks. The group leader Spd in the Bundestag, Wolfgang HellmichThe Defense Commission was informed in mid-May, he commented on the news from the dpa. In this regard, he explained, NATO has not taken any formal decisions because it is the member states, not the Alliance, that are supplying arms. All respected the agreement and “whoever says otherwise or has not listened well or knowingly not telling the truth”. Hellmich had already reported at the beginning of May that NATO had decided “not to supply any heavy battle tanks, none Leclerc or leopard“.
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