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Chancellor Olaf Scholz: "Nuclear war must be avoided"
  • The number of weapons sent by the Western States to Ukraine is unknown, but it is known that with them the Ukrainian army keeps the assault on Russia and that otherwise it would be in a much worse situation.
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Olaf Scholz Alemaniako Kantzilerra. (Argazkia: Inga Kjer. CC by-sa. 2.0)

The dispatch of arms to Ukraine, which had so far not been questioned in the Western countries, is beginning to take place in its entirety a series of cracks. It is difficult to know what is true and what propaganda in the analyses of war, but it seems that Russia has changed its tactics of invasion and is now going to put its forces into the invasion of Eastern and Southern Ukraine.

The Russian Army has squandered too many forces in the attempt to take Kiev and has suffered numerous casualties, including those to divert the beginning of the invasion on the main conventional roads, allowing the Ukrainian Army to successfully use Western weapons against tanks.

Several analysts now say that Russia will move slower but safer in the eastern attacks. That is why it is now said that artillery is waging war by hitting the front lines of each side hard. This is very common in wars, but the use of heavy weapons that is now being used has alluded to the war style of the First World War.

Shipments of defensive or aggressive weapons

In any event, the West continues to send the weapons that are essential to Ukraine. On Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden announced he would send $800 million more in weaponry, most of the artillery: 72 Howitzer guns and 144,000 155-millimeter artillery pieces; 72 vehicles to carry these guns; 121 Phoenix drones and other war equipment, according to the Pentagon.

The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, also visited Ukraine this week and from there announced the imminent shipment of 200 tons of weapons and ammunition, as well as 30 trucks and 10 light vehicles.

Eye with Nuclear War

But in this context, there is a European leader who is focusing his attention on other important areas. Germany, for example, mainly sends defensive weapons to Ukraine, but not heavy offensive weapons, such as Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who says in the Der Spiegel newspaper that this increases the risk of an atomic war and that this possibility must be avoided, yes or no. To this end, it considers it essential that NATO should not enter the war.