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Germany 'encouraging Putin' by refusing to supply weapons: Ukraine
Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Saturday condemned Germany for its refusal to supply weapons to Kyiv, urging Berlin to stop "undermining unity" and "encouraging Vladimir Putin" amid fears of a Russian invasion.
In a separate development, the foreign ministry said it had also summoned the German ambassador to Ukraine, Anka Feldhusen, to stress "the categorical unacceptability" of comments by German naval chief Kay-Achim Schoenbach in which he called Russian plans to invade Ukraine "inept".
With tens of thousands of Russian troops gathered on the Ukrainian border, fears are mounting that a major conflict could break out in Europe.
Ukraine's calls to Western allies to bolster its defence capabilities have seen the United States, Britain and Baltic states agree to send to Kyiv weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.
Kuleba said on Twitter that Germany's statements "about the impossibility of supplying defence weapons to Ukraine" did not match "the current security situation".
Ukraine's minister stressed that "today the unity of the West in relation to Russia is more important than ever.
"The German partners must stop undermining unity with such words and actions and encouraging (Russian President) Vladimir Putin to launch a new attack on Ukraine," Kuleba said.
Ukraine is "grateful" to Germany for the support it has already provided, but its "current statements are disappointing", he added.
- 'Deep disappointment' -
Ukraine's foreign ministry added in a statement that it wanted to express its "deep disappointment" at the German's government's "failure to provide defence weapons to Ukraine".
Earlier on Saturday German Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht said Berlin would send a field hospital to Ukraine, while once again rejecting Kyiv's calls for weapons.
Berlin has already delivered respirators to Ukraine and severely injured Ukrainian soldiers are currently being treated in Bundeswehr hospitals, she told Welt am Sonntag newspaper.
"Weapons deliveries would not be helpful at the moment -- that is the consensus within the government," Lambrecht said.
Moscow insists it has no plans to invade Ukraine but has at the same time laid down a series of security demands -- including a ban on Ukraine joining NATO -- in exchange for de-escalation.
Referring to naval chief Schoenbach's comments, Germany's defence ministry said he would be asked to explain himself.
In a video posted online that was recorded at a think-tank gathering in New Delhi on Friday, Schoenbach also said Putin "is to be respected".
"It's easy to give him the respect he wants, and probably deserves as well," he said in the video.
Schoenbach said Saturday that the comments were "thoughtless".
"There is no need to quibble: it was clearly a mistake," he tweeted.
Schoenbach's statements "do not correspond in any way to the position of the Germany defence ministry," a ministry spokesperson told AFP.
The vice-admiral will have to explain himself to the army chief of staff, the spokesperson added.
Russian troops are massed on Ukraine's border, along with an arsenal of tanks, fighting vehicles, artillery and missiles.
Moscow has denied it plans to invade but the Washington believes an attack could now come "at any point".
P.Mathewson--AMWN