Deputy Comptroller General of the German Armed Forces Markus Loebenthal explains his reasons for opposing the supply of heavy weapons to Ukraine.
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The German army opposes supplying Ukraine with heavy weapons and stresses its need for them
Deputy Comptroller General of the German Armed Forces, Markus Lubenthal, opposed his country’s provision of heavy weapons to Ukraine.
“For the management of the German armed forces, as well as for the training of new soldiers, we need these weapons,” Luopenthal said in a statement to the German television channel “ZDF”, today, Wednesday.
He added that Germany still needed Marder infantry fighting vehicles to fulfill its various obligations, including within NATO.
He also noted that the “Marder” infantry fighting vehicles ordered by Ukraine are used by the German army for training, and cannot simply be transferred to Kyiv.
The Deputy Comptroller General of the German Armed Forces noted that “then the German army would not have anything to send a division to the NATO Rapid Reaction Force, if they needed support.”
And Lopenthal concluded that “providing Ukraine with these vehicles will negatively affect the capabilities of the German army,” noting that “in the end, this will significantly weaken Germany’s defensive ability.”
And German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said yesterday, Tuesday, that his country “We will continue to support Ukraine militarily Although it has practically exceeded the maximum number of weapons it can deliver from its own stockpile, it is instead working with other countries to send more.
In his speech following his participation in A call with the Western alliesincluding US President Joe Biden, Schultz said they are coordinating more arms shipments to Ukraine, in order to ensure it can fend off Russia.
Before that, the German government announced that it plans to release more than one billion euros from Military aid to Ukraineamid Kyiv’s complaints that it did not receive heavy weapons from Berlin.
German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said:Germany has exhausted all its possibilities Almost to supply Ukraine with equipment from its army reserves, but it is working on deliveries made directly by arms producers.”
Diplomatic relations between Germany and Ukraine have been strained recently Kyiv cancels a proposed visit by the German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, because of his “previous role in developing his country’s relations with Russia,” according to Ukrainian government sources.
