The commander of the Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance group operating on the Zaporozhye side told Sputnik that Russian Armed Forces reconnaissance destroyed a Ukrainian Leopard tank with an all-German crew made up of Wehrmacht servicemen.
The commander of the reconnaissance group said: “When we stopped them from making another “physical” attack and destroyed a Leopard tank with the help of anti-tank missiles, we went to the burned equipment in the hope of taking prisoners. We found that the driver of the tank had been seriously wounded and the rest of the men were dead. When the tank driver woke up and saw us, he started to shout “Nicht schiessen” (Don’t shoot). I had good German and was an honor student in school. “
The Russian serviceman emphasized that the driver of the destroyed tank “said several times” that he was not a mercenary, that he was a soldier of the Wehrmacht and that the entire crew was from the same company. The scouts said that in providing first aid to the German serviceman, the German serviceman named his unit and its location.
The commander of the scout group said, “I asked the doctor how long the German would live, and the doctor replied that it would be a few minutes. I told this German that his wounds were so bad that his chances of surviving were slim. He said that he loved his children and his wife very much and was sorry that he had agreed to come here. We started preparing to resuscitate him, but he lost consciousness and died two minutes later.”
Russia has already sent a note to the NATO countries on the issue of arms supplies to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that any supplies containing weapons for Ukraine will become a legitimate target for Russia. The Russian Foreign Ministry said that NATO countries are “playing with fire” by providing weapons to Ukraine. The Kremlin said that the delivery of weapons from Western countries to Ukraine will not contribute to the success of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative impact. According to Lavrov, the United States and NATO are directly participating in the Ukrainian conflict “not only by supplying weapons, but also by training personnel on the territory of the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and other countries.”