In other words, although the announcement involved German tanks owned by a half dozen different countries - and the American Abrams tank as well - the Russian commentators weren’t talking about NATO or Europe or the United States this was Germany. Others recalled the bravery of their ancestors and said that Germany would now meet the fate that Adolf Hitler’s Reich did eight decades ago. This was Margarita Simonyan, perhaps the most popular of Kremlin propagandists and chief executive of Russia Today, posting to her Telegram channel in the hours following the announcement. “If Germans supply tanks to Ukraine, let them not paint over the swastikas and crosses. There was one other Russian response and a different kind of fusillade - the verbal variety - which came via Russian television and online media: The deployments meant a new war against “Nazi” Germany. For its part, the Russian military launched heavy strikes Thursday against much of Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv - though it’s unclear whether the fusillade was a direct response to the decision to send the tanks. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the deployment a “losing scheme” and said the tanks would “go up in flames.” Russian lawmakers and diplomats reacted with a mix of defiance (the tanks won’t hurt us) to warnings (the Russian ambassador to Germany issued a statement calling Berlin’s decision “highly dangerous” its envoy to the U.S. When the news came that German and American tanks would be headed to Ukraine, Russia responded in a variety of ways.
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