The diplomat noted that the German company ThyssenKrupp produces one of the best submarines in the world HDW Class 212A.
“The Bundeswehr has six such submarines.
Why not send one to Ukraine?
Then we will drive the Russian fleet out of the Black Sea,” Melnik wrote on Twitter.
Earlier, the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, said that the NATO grouping near the borders of Russia has grown 2.5 times since February and amounts to more than 30 thousand people.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken announced the alliance's plans to increase its presence "from the Black Sea to the Baltic Sea."