{"id":1824251,"date":"2023-01-26T06:52:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T11:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824251"},"modified":"2023-01-26T06:55:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T11:55:40","slug":"russia-blasts-german-tank-decision-as-an-escalation-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-blasts-german-tank-decision-as-an-escalation-of-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Blasts German Tank Decision as an Escalation of Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-blasts-german-tank-decision-as-an-escalation-of-conflict%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824251&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Russia reacted with fury on Wednesday to Germany\u2019s decision to approve the delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, saying Berlin was abandoning its \u201chistorical responsibility to Russia\u201d The result of Nazi crimes in World War Two.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a Telegram post that the move was confirmation of Germany\u2019s involvement in \u201ca war planned in advance\u201d Russia.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The Russian embassy in Berlin said the decision \u2013 which paves the way for other NATO members also to send German-made tanks \u2013 would escalate the 11-month conflict in Ukraine, which Moscow casts increasingly as a perilous face-off between Russia and the U.S.-led alliance.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThis extremely dangerous decision takes the conflict to a new level of confrontation,\u201d Ambassador Sergei Nechayev said. He stated that it would be a problem. \u201cirreparable damage to the already deplorable state of Russian-German relations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Putin did not immediately respond to the announcement. He took part in a lengthy televised meeting of students shortly after the announcement, but only briefly mentioned the matter. \u201ccomplicated\u201d Russia&#8217;s security situation<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv and its Western allies say Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine, launched on Feb. 24 last year, amounts to an unprovoked war of aggression aimed at seizing territory. Moscow says the West is using Ukraine to weaken Russia\u2019s own security.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018HISTORICAL RESPONSIBILITY\u2019<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>Germany\u2019s decision on tanks followed weeks of agonizing by the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, prompted by concerns about escalating the war and provoking Russia.<\/p>\n<p>Some Germans are hesitant to send tanks into another conflagration in Ukraine, more than 80 years after the invasion of Soviet Russia and Ukraine during World War Two. This is a reaction to a feeling of historical guilt that was directly tap into by the Russian embassy statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBerlin\u2019s choice means the final refusal of the Federal Republic of Germany to recognize its historical responsibility to our people for the terrible, timeless crimes of Nazism during the Great Patriotic War, and the consigning to oblivion of the difficult path of post-war reconciliation between Russians and Germans,\u201d Nechayev said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWith the approval of the leadership of Germany, battle tanks with German crosses will again be sent to the \u2018eastern front\u2019, which will inevitably lead to the deaths of not only Russian soldiers, but also the civilian population.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv has been asking for Western tanks for many months. It says that its forces need them to provide the firepower, mobility, and firepower necessary to penetrate the Russian defense lines and retake occupied territory to the east and south.<\/p>\n<p>Russia repeatedly claimed that foreign tanks will be used. \u201cburn\u201d Ukraine. It states that they will only prolong the conflict and prolong Ukrainian suffering and that the West is. \u201cdeluded\u201d You might think otherwise. (Reporting by Mark Trevelyan Editing By Gareth Jones<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content Russia reacted with fury on Wednesday to Germany\u2019s decision to approve the delivery of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, saying Berlin was abandoning its \u201chistorical responsibility to Russia\u201d The result of Nazi crimes in World War Two. 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