BERLIN, 29 November – RIA Novosti. German Defense Minister Christina Lambrecht said in an interview with the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that the Bundeswehr (German armed forces) would be in a better position today if it had not delivered large quantities of weapons and ammunition from its own stockpiles to Ukraine. .

He added that Berlin will not be able to meet its defense spending target of 2% of national GDP for NATO members this year “and possibly even next year”. “First of all, industrial capacities need to be restored,” said the minister. He announced that now Germany is scheduled to reach the two percent figure in about five years.

Earlier, German cabinet spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told reporters that there is a shortage of ammunition everywhere in the Bundeswehr, but due to secrecy, the exact number of stockpiles and how many days of this ammunition are not reported. it would take.

Russia had previously sent a note to NATO countries for arms supplies to Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov noted that any cargo containing weapons for Ukraine would become a legitimate target for Russia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation stated that NATO countries are “playing with fire” by supplying weapons to Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov noted that pumping weapons into Ukraine from the West does not contribute to the success of the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations and will have a negative effect.