No Commitment From Germany To Send Leopard 2 Tanks To Ukraine

NATO enhanced Forward Presence battle group Spanish army tank Leopard 2 fires during the final phase of the Silver Arrow 2022 military drill on Adazi military training grounds, Latvia September 29, 2022. REUTERS/Ints Kalnins/File Photo  

The Guardian: Olaf Scholz steers clear of commitment to supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine 

Zelenskiy warns against delaying military support after German chancellor’s reticence at Davos summit Germany’s chancellor avoided committing to the supply of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine at the Davos summit on Wednesday, although he held the door open to a positive decision at a special summit of western defence ministers on Friday. 

Olaf Scholz did not mention the Leopard tanks at all when a Ukrainian delegate asked him “why the hesitancy” in signing off their re-export – prompting an apparently frustrated Ukrainian president to warn the same forum against delay.  

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Update #1: Scholz Says in Talks With Allies About Sending Tanks to Ukraine (Bloomberg)  

Update #2: Scholz on Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine: ‘We must avoid Russia-NATO war’ (Kyiv Independent)  

WNU editor: Germany will only send tanks to Ukraine if the US sends their tanks .... Berlin sets condition for U.S. on exports of German tanks to Ukraine -source (Reuters). More here .... Germany won’t act alone in sending tanks to Ukraine, says Olaf Scholz (The Telegraph).



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