STORY: Air alert in Ukraine – again. Regional governments across the country warned of rocket attacks on Thursday morning and called on the population to seek protection. In Kyiv, people crowded into the subway stations. According to the Ukrainian Emergency Service, eleven people were killed in attacks across the country. Since October, Russia has repeatedly launched massive airstrikes on Ukraine. With its most recent shelling, Moscow is apparently reacting to the decision by Germany, the USA and other NATO countries to supply main battle tanks to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said they disagreed with statements from Europe and Washington that sending tanks did not constitute any involvement in hostilities in Ukraine. Moscow will see everything the alliance does as direct involvement in the conflict. “We see that this is increasing,” says Peskow. While on Russian television the main battle tanks Leopard, Challenger and Abrams announced by the West are mocked as “toothless tigers”, the British military expert Ed Arnold sees the weapon systems as having an advantage. ”They are superior to the Russian capabilities in terms of firepower and protection. They also have better optics, better stabilization, so they’re better at shooting on the move. And they are better able to locate the enemy and, which is very important in tank warfare, to fire the first shot. So the tanks will make a real difference. It is definitely the case that quality comes before quantity. So Ukraine will still have to decide how to use these tanks. Bring them directly into combat as soon as they become available, or integrate them into larger formations, train and practice, and spend some more time integrating them into your fighting style, possibly using them in the summer.” From Ukraine “Meanwhile, there were calls for more weapons. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj said he had also asked NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg for long-range missiles and aircraft. The United States reacted cautiously. Chancellor Olaf Scholz had already ruled out the delivery of fighter jets on Wednesday.