DISINFO: The number of tanks to be supplied to Ukraine by Germany and England a Nazi code
SUMMARY
The plans also include sending 88 (pay attention and remember this figure) - 88 old Leopards-1. When exactly, again, is still unknown. However, something else is important here. The number 88 around the world is a Nazi code for their favourite greeting, namely heil Hitler. Quite expectedly, once again, the Rheinmetall concern, as in the days of the Third Reich, began work to kill the Russian people.
What is even more piquant is the fact that another 14 Challenger tanks will be sent to Kyiv by London. And 14 is the first half of the very Nazi cipher, thanks to which they recognise each other around the world. 14 is the number of words in a quote from one of the ideologists of the so-called Anglo-Saxon white supremacy, David Lane.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theory fitting recurrent pro-Kremlin media narrative on Nazi rule in Ukraine, Russia fighting Nazis in Ukraine (including the "Nazi" West helping Ukraine with military equipment), aimed at justifying the unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
On 25 January 2023, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced that Germany will continue to increase military support for Ukraine. The federal government has decided to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with Leopard 2 main battle tanks. As a first step, Germany will provide a company with 14 Leopard 2 tanks from Bundeswehr stocks. These 14 Bundeswehr's tanks are not linked to a "Nazi code" by pro-Kremlin disinformation outlets, as the 14 British Challenger tanks are. Germany is coordinating its deliveries with other EU countries, such as Poland, France and others.
Different figures are discussed. According to Handelsblatt, from the older Leopard 1 model, 20 main battle tanks could be re-equipped and sold this year and another 80 within 20 months.
The armaments group Rheinmetall could deliver a total of 139 Type 1 and Type 2 Leopard tanks, RND reports. Its spokesman told RND:"We have 22 vehicles of Leopard 2A4 that we could prepare for use and deliver to Ukraine". “The repair of these vehicles would take almost a year. Delivery would be possible at the end of 2023/beginning of 2024. There are also 29 Leopard 2A4s that we have in the works for the ring swap projects and that we will have ready by April/May 2023.” The spokesman added: “From the Leopard 1 we could make 88 vehicles available".
Linking this hypothetical, once mentioned figure among others, as proof of coded Nazi communications between Germany, the UK and Ukraine is a conspiracy.
As a reminder, the European Jewish Congress demands an apology from Russia’s top diplomat Sergey Lavrov who compared US policies on Russia with Hitler’s Holocaust. Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance centre also chastised Lavrov for his comments: "Lavrov's equation of Hitler's murderous campaign to annihilate the Jewish people known as the 'Final Solution’ with current Ukrainian moves to counter the Russian invasion is an utter distortion of the history and an affront to the actual victims of Nazism”, ' said the Museum.