Kremlin threatens Germany with consequences for allowing delivery of Leopard tanks to Ukraine

Russian President's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists about this, Russian mass media report.

"Relations are already at a fairly low point. And although there is no substantive dialogue with Germany and other countries of the European Union and North Atlantic Alliance. But certainly, such deliveries do not bode well for the future of relations. They will certainly leave an inevitable mark for the future of these relations," he said.

• NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on January 24 that Germany's permission to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine "will come soon", so countries can prepare weapons.

• During the meeting of the Contact Group on Defense of Ukraine in Ramstein on January 20, ministers did not agree on the provision of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

• Earlier, Poland announced its intention to transfer Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, regardless of Berlin's decision as a country producing this equipment.