After the decision to supply tanks to Ukraine, Russian propaganda is up in arms.
A well-known TV presenter called Chancellor Scholz and Foreign Minister Baerbock “scum”.
Moscow/Berlin - With the decision to supply battle tanks to Ukraine, Germany and the USA are making clear their "direct involvement" in the conflict.
That said Dmitri Peskov, spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, on Thursday.
Moscow publicly sees itself as a victim, while the West is the aggressor, according to the narrative of Russian propaganda.
During a visit to a Moscow university on Wednesday, shortly after the German government's decision to supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, Putin described Germany as a US-occupied state.
The course under Chancellor Olaf Scholz is particularly disappointing, because good business has been done with Germany for years.
This was reported by
Spiegel Online
on Thursday.
Putin's propaganda rolls after German tank deliveries: "Scholz!
bear buck!
Pistorius!
You new Nazis!”
The Kremlin's propaganda has become even more shrill: TV presenter Vladimir Solovyov threatened that Russia would destroy Berlin if the country supplied the "Ukrainian Nazis" with weapons.
Later in the show he yelled: "Scholz!
bear buck!
Pistorius!
You new Nazis!
You European Pharisees, you!
Nazi scum!" Russia Today chief Margarita Simonian wrote on her Telegram channel: "After the US whips, they deliver the tanks.
Deliveries of gas chambers are expected towards the summer.”
Russian newspapers were similarly upset on Thursday.
The Kremlin-related newspaper
Rossijskaja Gazeta
showed Scholz in front of a Leopard tank next to a picture of a tank destroyed in World War II with the description: "Apart from the command from the state behind the ocean, the German chancellor has probably forgotten how his country was the last of such campaigns came to an end.” The
Moskovsky Komsomolets
headlined an online article “German tanks back in Russia”.
Ukraine war: Germany sends battle tanks in the video
Russia's propaganda in full swing after German Leopard deliveries announced
Peskov, on the other hand, appeased and attributed little importance to the German tank for the conflict in Ukraine.
He spoke of a "significant overestimation of the potential" of such tanks for the Ukrainian armed forces.
"These tanks will burn just like all the others," said the Putin spokesman, adding: Western tanks are expensive and European taxpayers will now have to pay for them.
Scholz had announced the delivery of 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine on Wednesday and cleared the way for the delivery of these heavy main battle tanks from other countries as well.
The USA wants to send 31 Abrams battle tanks, Great Britain 14 Challenger 2. In addition, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands and Spain have announced that they will participate in the tank alliance.
(fmu)
