Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has cautioned that supplying western-made arms to Ukraine is highly risky because the donors will be “controlling” how these weapons are used.
Accordingly, he stated: “It is very bad to send weapons to a war zone. This is more so when people who deliver them take charge of their usage. It implies that lives and peace are in danger.”
In the past weeks several countries have authorized Ukraine’s use of Western-made weaponry to attack targets inside Russia as a response to a new offensive by Moscow in northeast Ukraine last month.
Among them was Germany; Putin told reporters that “the first German tanks that appeared on Ukrainian soil caused moral shock and ethical collapse in Russia,” due to historical issues surrounding World War II.
He said about the Germans: “When they say that there will be more missiles which will hit targets on Russian territory, this definitively destroys Russian-German relations.”
Instead blaming a pro-Western revolution in 2014 followed by its annexation of Crimea and subsequent separatist uprising in the east of the country, Putin insists his country “did not start the war against Ukraine”.
There is a commonly held view that Russia initiated conflict in Ukraine. No one wants to recall how this tragedy started. As such Putin said:
