The Russian T-72 tank, which Ukrainian soldiers destroyed last March during the battle for Kiev, is on display in the German capital from today in front of the Russian embassy. The tank is part of commemorative events with which Germany commemorates the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Activists in Berlin have been trying for many months to display the decommissioned equipment used by the Russians to invade Ukraine, but the city hall initially refused. Ukrainian ambassador to Germany Oleksiy Makeyev is pictured.
Berlin – The Russian T-72 tank, which Ukrainian soldiers destroyed last March during the battle for Kiev, is on display in the German capital from today in front of the Russian embassy. The tank is part of commemorative events with which Germany commemorates the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Activists in Berlin have been trying for many months to display the defused equipment used by the Russians to invade Ukraine, but the city hall initially refused.
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Passersby contacted by ČTK agreed with the idea of displaying a Russian tank right in front of the Russian embassy, as they consider it a way to draw attention to Russian aggression. “I really like that the barrel is pointing at the embassy,” the girl, who introduced herself as Luisa, told CTK. The tank, which is mounted on a transport trailer, is positioned on the Unter den Linden boulevard near the Brandenburg Gate with its cannon pointing towards the Russian diplomatic mission.
The tank arrived in Berlin early this morning from Poland and according to event organizers , behind which the Berlin Story Bunker museum stands, will remain here for the entire weekend. “We wanted to give the terrorists their scrap at the door,” said one of the initiators of the exhibition, Wieland Giebel from Berlin Story Bunker.
From the information boards placed next to the wreck, people can learn that the tank was destroyed by Ukrainians on March 31 last year near Dmytrivka on the outskirts of Kyiv. The fact that the tank was involved in the fighting is also evidence of bullet holes.
Activists wanted to organize an exhibition of destroyed combat equipment in front of the Russian embassy in the center of Berlin last summer, but the authorities in the city district of Mitte (Wednesday) they rejected the idea. They argued, among other things, that for reverent reasons it is not appropriate to show machines in which people have died. However, the administrative court decided in October that the authority's arguments were not sufficient to ban the exhibition, so it allowed the event. The organizers then decided to show the tank to the public on the anniversary of the invasion.
In the summer, Berliners could already see on the famous Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard a van that had been shot up and burned, in which three adults tried to escape from the battle-torn city of Buča near Kiev women and one girl. But their escape was thwarted by Russian soldiers who killed them. The wreck was located in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, where the local town hall supported the exhibition.
