Day: February 5, 2023

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees that weapons provided by the West will not be employed to assault Russian territory, Germany’s leader reported in an job interview Sunday.

“There is a consensus on this place,” Chancellor Olaf Scholz reported in an interview with the weekly Bild am Sonntag.

Ukraine’s Western allies have pledged to arm it with precision rockets and missile systems, as well as tanks, as it tries to thrust again Russian troops in its east.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has compared the intervention of international locations this sort of as Germany with his nation’s struggle throughout Environment War II.

“Yet again and once again we are pressured to repel the aggression of the collective West,” he claimed Thursday on the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad.

But Scholz turned down the comparison.

“His terms are section of a series of absurd historical comparisons that he uses to justify his attack on Ukraine”, he said.

“But nothing justifies this war.

“Jointly with our allies, we are supplying fight tanks to Ukraine so that it can defend itself. We have diligently weighed every single supply of weapons, in close coordination with our allies, setting up with The usa.”

He mentioned that this sort of a consensus-dependent tactic “avoids an escalation”.