Providing training and arms deliveries to Ukrainian troops could make Germany a party to the war, an expert report says


If a nation provides “instructions or training” to a party to a conflict, including in using specific weapons in addition to supplying it with arms, this nation could lose its “safe” status as a neutral party in the conflict under international law, the panel of experts told German MPs in the report.

The weapons deliveries themselves do not pose such a risk under international law, the 12-page document issued back in mid-March says.

Berlin has brushed off the concerns, saying it does not believe it is crossing a red line by allowing Ukrainian troops to be trained at US bases on German soil. The government is well aware of the March report, spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told the media.

“We are convinced that the training of Ukrainian soldiers [in using] weapons systems in Germany still does not mean directly joining the war,” he said.

Germany’s government announced plans to supply Ukraine with self-propelled anti-aircraft guns last week. Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht also announced at the US’ Ramstein base that Berlin would support the training of Ukrainian soldiers with Western artillery systems.

Ukrainian troops have reportedly been receiving military training on German soil for quite some time. In mid-April, the Pentagon announced it would provide training to Ukrainian troops in another country – and last Friday, the US military confirmed soldiers had been trained at its German bases.


The Bundeswehr – the German Armed Forces – and the Dutch military are also involved in this training process, according to the newspaper Die Zeit.

The German government has faced criticism from Left Party MPs who argue Berlin is pushing Europe into a large-scale conflict. The government and Bundestag have made Germany “an active party to the war” with the recent decisions, Left Party MP Zaklin Nastic told RND media group on Monday.

“The federal government is exposing the whole of Europe to a completely uncontrollable danger,” she warned.

Two groups of politicians and public figures have recently separately addressed Chancellor Olaf Scholz with open letters urging Berlin to stop arms deliveries to Ukraine and contribute to negotiations between Kiev and Moscow instead.

The German government has so far not reacted to any of the letters. Initially reluctant to do so, Germany has been supplying Ukraine with arms together with other NATO nations almost since the start of Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine. Berlin has mostly provided Ukraine with small arms, as well as portable anti-tank and anti-air missiles.


https://www rt com/news/554864-germany-role-ukraine-conflict-training/

We just need peace

This war is goons escalate as long as this attitude persists!
A country provided a training base for soldiers in another country at war!
So what happens if that base is attacked from.within the country!
Will the country attack.itself?
Make.people.think am.well.well.o


War is like.a bicycle e no hard to start

Hezzyluv:
We just need peace

West doesn’t want peace. Russia is always ready….. I just pity Ukraine, make all the countries fight no more proxy wars…..

baralatie:

This war is goons escalate as long as this attitude persists!
A country provided a training base for soldiers in another country at war!
So what happens if that base is attacked from.within the country!
Will the country attack.itself?
Make.people.think am.well.well.o

Im already preparing for WW3…. Looking inevitable cos Kyiv will get a nuke eventually ….

Russia is just crying here and there.

Ukraine is getting stronger by the day.

Over to pro-Putin luuunatics.

Who issued the so-called warning?

RT propaganda news?

Comedians blaming other people because they can not defeat small Ukraine...

Small Ukraine is slapping you left and right, but na Germany you won face..

Stupiid people..

Opolopoopolonio:
Russia is just crying here and there.

Ukraine is getting stronger by the day.

Over to pro-Putin luuunatics.

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Then expect a Chemical, Biological or Nuclear Nuke since you don't want PEACE. And don't come here to cry foul of massacre.

EdoBoy90:
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Then expect a Chemical, Biological or Nuclear Nuke since you don't want PEACE. And don't come here to cry foul of massacre.

If Russia dare go nuclear, it will do them like film truck.

These loonatics can’t simply ignore my propaganda, hungry kids