US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby announced that it would request an additional $33 billion in aidUkrainetwo thirds of it for weapons e ammunitionthe United States is training soldiers Kyiv the use of weapon systems in their bases Germany and that this is done in accordance with that government German, which helps with coordination and organization. On the occasion of a meeting organized by Washington with about 40 countries at the American base and headquarters of the Joint Central Command NATO aircraft from Ramsteinin Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany had also agreed four days ago after much hesitationUkraine heavy weapons and Bundestag this was approved the day before yesterday by a large majority. The German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht (SPD) had already expected the delivery of anti-aircraft tanks before the summit cheetah and to which Germany could have committed itself train Kiev soldiers on its territory. However, the German defender had expressly ruled that out participation directly from the Bundeswehr, stating that the formation of the Ukrainian soldiers The use of old 2000 howitzer systems would only be pursued by the war industry overtake the weapons. It is the first time that the Berlin government is taking an active role.
Kirby implied that two groups of one fifty of Ukrainian soldiers are currently being trained in it Germany the use of systems by American artillery (there ZdF speaks generally of howitzers and other weapon systems) and then return to their homeland, they must act in their turn instructor for their own troops. The exercises are carried out by 160 members of the national guard of Florida stationed before the outbreak of war Ukraine as advisors and that they were withdrawn and stationed in others in February for security reasons Villages Europeans. The American official indicated that he was considering giving classes in video conference.
Soldiers from Kyiv are trained in several places outside their country, and Germany is just one of them, Kirby said, without naming another details. The speaker of Pentagon seemed very emotional with direct criticism Wladimir Putin for waging the war, only to apologize to reporters for his outburst, Germany’s ARD reports from Washington. It’s hard for Kirby to take what Russia is doing, “brutality and cold ever seen, I don’t think we properly imagined the extent to which such kind of would manifest force and cruelty“. Yesterday also the Chancellor Olaf Scholz had expressed a harsh judgment about it To fly in an intervention in the conservative newspaper wheal which is reflected today in an interview with his party comrade Rolf Mutzenich at the Rheinische Post. The leader of the faction SPD invites Scholz to a diplomatic offensive against the countries they support To fly to make them detach from the Russian sphere. At the United Nations, no fewer than 45 states have not condemned the aggression against Ukraine, including 5 nuclear powers. L’Indiafor example highlights capsichbuy gas in bulk Russiabut also the Chinathat Brazil and the South Africa They are important Moscow allies.
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