Dmitry Kuleba Foreign Minister urged Germany to provide more weapons to Ukraine and severely criticized for delay in deciding after the start of hostilities in Ukraine. He said this during the interview with the German newspaper Die Welt.
“Ukraine needs help. Give more weapons so that we can protect yourself. Help us protect our sky, facilitate the provision of combat aircraft, provide more serious anti-tank, anti-airwater weapons. Enter even more stringent sanctions against Russia, including Refusal to Russian oil and gas, disconnecting Sberbank from SWIFT, freezing of correspondent accounts of Russian banks and companies, ban on the entry of Russian ships in European ports, “said Culba.
He recalled that Ukraine even before the start of hostilities asked for preventive sanctions and urged not to build a gas pipeline “Northern Stream-2”.
“We asked to give weapons, and in response heard stories about” historical responsibility “, which for some reason spread to Russians, but not in Ukrainians. We asked not to build” North Stream-2 “. But Germany claimed that it was A purely “commercial” project. We asked not to repeat the mistakes of the past and stop it to the catastrophe. You did not believe us and insisted on the importance of dialogue with Putin, “said the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
Couple stressed that Ukraine needs constant public pressure on Russia from partners.
“I ask you. Discover your eyes. But such scales of hatred, destruction and grief, which now hurts us, Ukraine and Europe have not seen since the 1940s. You, like no other you know that in such a situation every An hour of delay and doubt costs lives and even greater disasters, “he noted.