Annalena Baerbock promises Ukraine aid and arms but does not confirm release of Leopard 2 tanks
to help it force out the Russians and win the war on the ground. These were not “unreasonable numbers” to help Kyiv achieve victory, the western official added in a briefing.
Elsewhere, there are clear signs that the west is stepping up the pace of its support. Ukrainian soldiers will travel to a US base near Oklahoma City to be trained on how to use the Patriot missile defence system thatThe west is also beginning to believe that Russia may have failed in its attempt to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid over the winter.
Nikolai Patrushev, the head of Russia’s security council, said the conflict in Ukraine has become “a military confrontation between Russia and Nato, and above all the US and Britain”, in a newspaper interview aimed at boosting support for the war in his home country. The senior politician, a close ally of the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, said the west’s plan was to “continue to pull Russia apart, and eventually just erase it from the political map of the world” and that the US was “a shell for a conglomerate of huge corporations that rule the country and try to dominate the world”.
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