Russia supplying weapons, troops to Ukraine separatists

Russia supplying weapons, troops to Ukraine separatists
by Staff Writers
Frankfurt (AFP) April 11, 2015

German army to recommission 100 tanks
Frankfurt (AFP) April 11, 2015 - The German army is to bring back into service around 100 tanks sold to industry, the ministry of defence said on Saturday.

The move will bring to 328 the number of "Leopard 2" tanks the German army has at its disposal, up from 225 at present, a ministry spokesman told AFP, confirming a report in the weekly magazine Der Spiegel.

The tanks will have to be updated to integrate the latest technology, with the modernisation process due to start in 2017.

The decision follows the creation of a new "spearhead" force of about 5,000 troops able to deploy anywhere within a couple of days.

The unit -- agreed in September 2014 by NATO leaders stung into action by the Ukraine crisis -- is due to be operational by 2016, with command centres being set up in NATO's east European members.

NATO believes that Russia has supplied more troops and weapons to pro-Russian separatists in east Ukraine, a German newspaper reported on Sunday.

"We have noticed again support for the separatists, with weapons, troops and training. Russia is still sending troops and arms from one side of the open border with Ukraine to the other," a NATO official, who was not named, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

Such acts would violate the Minsk peace accords, which are supposed to end the fighting in Ukraine.

The accusations emerge as the foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France are set to meet on Monday in Berlin to assess the implementation of the Minsk accords.

The situation in Ukraine remains tense, with frequent violations of the peace deal.

The OSCE ha sent monitors to east Ukraine but demanded this week that both Ukraine's pro-Russian separatists and its regular army stop intimidating or restricting the movements of the organisation's 400 monitors.

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