Berlin’s decision to supply Kiev with Leopard tanks is extremely dangerous as it escalates the conflict, Russia’s ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechaev, said on Sunday.

“The German government has not only approved the delivery of heavy Leopard tanks to Kiev but also allowed other countries, which have these lethal vehicles, to re-export them to Ukraine,” he said in an interview with RT DE.

The decision “violates an unshakable rule, which has served as a fundamental principle of German foreign policy in the post-war decades, and which prohibits the supply of German arms to conflict zones,” he stressed, adding, “We consider this decision extremely dangerous.” . It openly escalates the conflict to a new level and runs counter to previous statements by German politicians about Germany’s reluctance to take sides.’

In fact, Berlin’s move meant that Germany ‘rejected itself from acknowledging its historic responsibility to the Russian people for Nazi atrocities and crimes during the Great Patriotic War (the Eastern Front during World War II where the former Soviet Union fought against Nazi Germany), including but not limited to, Nechaev said, ‘Now it is not customary to remember the feeling of gratitude of the Germans to our people for the liberation of Germany from Nazism, the post-war reunification, the unification of Germany, in which our country also played an important role.’

Meanwhile, Russian presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow considers the supply of Western weapons to Ukraine as increasing Western involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. Source: Tas.