The spokesman expressed that relations between Moscow and Berlin ‘are already at quite a low point’ at the moment, and there is no substantive dialogue with Germany, nor with the other countries of the European Union or the Atlantic Alliance.

Hours earlier, North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told at a press conference with German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius that Berlin would soon make the decision on the Leopard battle tanks.

On January 20, the U.S. air base in Ramstein (Germany) hosted a meeting of the defense chiefs of about 50 countries, after which Pistorius said that the participants had not made a decision on sending Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

In turn, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said that Warsaw will form an alternative coalition of countries ready to supply tanks to Kiev if Berlin does not give its consent to transfer these vehicles.

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