 Leopard tanks can speed up nuclear war. Head of Russia's delegation to the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, Konstantin Gavrilov has called on the West to prevent nuclear provocations with Leopard 2 tanks. We warned the Western sponsors of the Kiev military machine against encouraging nuclear provocations and blackmail. We know that Leopard 2 tanks as well as the Bradley and Marder armoured infantry carriers are armed with armor-piercing projectiles with uranium warheads. Their use leads to the contamination of the area like it was in former Yugoslavia and Iraq. In case such munitions for NATO made heavy weapons are supplied to Kiev, we will consider that as the use of dirty nuclear bombs against Russia with all the consequences that come with it, he said at the OSCE forum on security cooperation. The German government decided earlier to send 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine. Apart from that Berlin will allow re-export from other countries. Russia's ambassador to Germany Sergei Necheev slammed this decision as extremely dangerous as it raises the conflict to a new level of confrontation. Berlin's choice in his words signaled the final refusal of Germany to recognise historical responsibility for Nazi crimes committed during the Second World War. He said the decision cast into oblivion the difficult path of post-war reconciliation between the Russians and Germans.