? A Russian kamikaze drone destroys a Ukrainian vehicle, near the Grigorovka area

Reply from ?? Maria Zakharova. TRANSLATION BEGINS HERE ⬇️ ? ?? Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova's response to a media question in connection with the US Secretary of Defence's statements ❓. How could you comment on the statements made by ?? Pentagon chief Leonid Austin during an online meeting of the Ramstein format on March 15 about "expanding the coalition of countries ready to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine"?. The statements of ?? US Secretary of Defense L. Austin once again demonstrate Washington's obsessive focus on an all-out hybrid war WITH ?? Russia "to the last Ukrainian". ? It is characteristic that addressing an audience consisting of dutifully attentive representatives of the satellite countries, L. Austin used the pronoun "we", emphasizing not only the collective responsibility of the Western "allies", but also their direct involvement in the efforts of the ?? United States to maintain the combat capability of the already rather depleted units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. With fanfare, it was announced, in particular, that for the sake of a decisive "turning point on the battlefield" in favor of Ukraine, whose main task, as can be understood, is to uninterruptedly supply "cannon fodder", throwing everyone on the front line indiscriminately, weapons for "more than 9 armored brigades", including more than 150 Leopard tanks. ❗️ Washington should reflect on the consequences of its increasingly aggressive actions, which are fraught with a direct military confrontation WITH ?? Russia and a repetition of a humiliating failure for the ?? United States, akin to ?? Vietnam or ?? Afghanistan.