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The Netherlands is ready to pay for German Leopard tanks for Ukraine and is awaiting a positive decision from NATO countries to send heavy weapons to Kyiv. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of the Kingdom Kaisa Ollongren in an interview with Bloomberg.
Ollongren said the Netherlands had previously paid to ship T-72 tanks from the Czech Republic to Kyiv, and the same approach could be taken for German-made Leopard tanks.
Ollongren noted that Poland and Finland have already announced their readiness to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine as part of a coalition. “We are all waiting to find out what the position of Germany is on this issue, but I am in favor of finding a solution and sending tanks to Ukraine,” added the head of the Dutch Ministry of Defense.
Earlier, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed hope that, following the meeting of the contact group on support for Ukraine at the Ramstein airbase in Germany on January 20, decisions would be made on the supply of heavy weapons to Kyiv.
According to the newspaper Politico, the group of countries should receive broad support, and representatives of the defense ministries of two of the 12 countries with German Leopard tanks said their governments are ready to join this effort.
Earlier, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz put forward a condition for the supply of German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. According to him, Germany will supply this equipment if the United States also decides to supply its Abrams tanks.
Source: Rosbalt
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