Scholz: it is the “most modern material available in Germany”
Germany will send Ukraine modern anti-aircraft defense systems and radars to locate enemy artillery to better defend itself against Russian aggression. Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on Wednesday the delivery to the attacked country of the “most modern anti-aircraft defense system available to Germany”, which will allow Ukraine to “protect a very large city from Russian air raids”. It is the “Iris-T” short-range air-to-air missile system developed by Germany with six other countries after the end of the Cold War and produced by the German Diehl consortium. In addition, Berlin will provide Kiev with mobile “Cobra” radars for locating enemy artillery, which will recognize and calculate the ballistic trajectory of the projectiles to accurately locate and combat the point of origin of those shots.
In an intervention before the Bundestag, the federal parliament, Scholz rejected accusations by the conservative opposition that Germany would not supply heavy weapons to Ukraine. In this sense, he recalled that several NATO partners in Eastern Europe provide tanks and combat vehicles to the Ukrainian army in exchange for similar military equipment to be supplied by Germany. Greece joined the exchanges already agreed with Slovenia or the Czech Republic, the chancellor said, stressing that this country and the Netherlands will soon also send Ukraine “Gepard” battle tanks and a dozen heavy self-propelled howitzers. 2000», considered one of the most modern in the world. Ukrainian soldiers have been in the German Palatinate for two weeks to learn how to deal with the latter.
The federal government took “a courageous decision” when, despite Russian aggression, it immediately decided to end the tradition of not sending weapons to war zones. “A few days after the war started, we sent anti-aircraft missiles and anti-tank weapons,” said Scholz, who spoke of dozens of military supply trucks and detailed the material delivered to Ukraine since then, from 15 million bullets, 100,000 shells and 5,000 mines of anti-tank, anti-tank systems, automatic or explosive rifles. He also responded to criticism of the poor state of the German armed forces by stating that conservative politicians have cut national military spending to the point of destroying the army. “It was a Union-led government that has carried out that state practice in recent years,” Scholz noted, referring to Angela Merkel’s 16 years in power.
Earlier, the leader of the conservative faction in the Bundestag, the Christian Democrats’ chairman, Friedrich Merz, had sharply criticized the Chancellor for his “indecisive” policy towards Ukraine and the alleged “irritation” in Europe because of the alleged “passivity” ” In this sense, Scholz emphasized his close contacts with French President Emmanuel Macron, with whom he held a conference call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to try to end the fighting in Ukraine and a ceasefire The goal of the federal government is that Putin “not win” the war against Ukraine. “Our goal is that Ukraine can defend itself and be successful,” said the Berlin chief.
Source: La Verdad
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