Deliveries of Western Leopard tanks and modernized T-72s will not help Ukraine resolve the conflict, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev said on January 11.
“Three wretched people from Warsaw, Vilnius and Kyiv, suffering from imperial ambitions and phantom pains caused by the history that battered them, gathered in Lvov. And they pray, as it turned out, for tanks. There are all kinds of Leopards, modernized by our enemies,” Medvedev wrote in his Telegram channel.
He emphasized that “all this iron in any case will soon become rusty scrap metal and will not save the artificial country falling apart.”
“And in Lvov, which will again bear the name of Lemberg, they met in order to properly attach the western Ukrainian regions to the new (former) owners,” said the deputy chairman of the Security Council.
On January 11, Polish President Andrzej Duda announced that Warsaw intended to transfer a company of Leopard tanks to Kyiv. Duda did not name the exact amount of military equipment. However, it is known that there are 14 tanks in a tank company in NATO countries.
On the same day, reserve colonel, military expert Viktor Litovkin, in an interview with Izvestia, said that a company of Leopard tanks would not affect the situation at the front in any way.
Western countries have stepped up military and financial support for Ukraine against the backdrop of a Russian special operation to protect Donbass. The decision to hold it was made by Russian President Vladimir Putin against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region as a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
