Germany has given Ukraine important
arms, German Ambassador to Rome Viktor Elbling told an ANSA
Forum Wednesday.
"Germany is doing an awful lot for Ukraine," Elbling said.
"We have supplied important arms, for those who know German
history it was a very important turning point, we have directly
supplied Stingers and other equipment to Ukraine and other
weapons".
Kyiv on Wednesday voiced disappointment that Berlin had decided
to stop giving it arms after the German army said it needed all
its heavy weaponry for itself.
Elbling added that giving up Russian gas would be damaging.
"We can't get out of this relative reliance on Russian gas from
today to tomorrow, both Germany and Italy, it would be very
damaging, but I'm sure that already this year we will take an
important step to significantly reduce this dependence, and in
the next few years we want to cut this dependence to zero.
"Italy is well-positioned in energy diversification, it has
regassification plants already in place. We are working on it, a
lot will happen in the coming years".
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