kyiv demands greater military support and expressly requests the supply of German-made tanks. Several NATO countries that have Leopard 2 say they are willing to send them, although they require the authorization of Berlin, hitherto reluctant.
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The Contact Group for Ukraine, made up of kyiv’s Western allies, is meeting today (starting at 09:00) at the US base in Ramstein, Germany, for a ministerial meeting focused on the demand for increased military support to that country against Russia, including the supply of Leopard tanks.
The meeting was attended by the Secretary General of the NATOJens Stoltenberg, Secretary of Defense of USALloyd Austin, and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, as well as their counterparts from Germany, UK and Polandamong others.
The appointment is preceded by kyiv’s demand for its allies to “considerably strengthen” the supplies of weapons, including the German-made Leopard 2 tanks, expressed yesterday in a joint statement by Reznikov together with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba. .
Ukraine requests the states that have Leopard 2 to join those supplies and listed Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and Turkey, among others.
kyiv’s lawsuit comes amid strong pressure on Berlin, including from allies such as Poland, to authorize shipments of Leopard to allies that have this type of tank. Any supply of these German-made armored vehicles requires authorization from Berlin.
Germany has so far refused to authorize the shipment of these active combat tanks to other NATO countries, stating that such a decision can only be taken “in coordination” with the allies.
In the German media, it has been advanced that this veto could be lifted if the United States allows the sending of its Abrams tanks, something complex, since these require more training and support than the Leopard. The Pentagon rejected such a shipment last night, among other things because the Abrams need jet fuel, which the Ukraine does not have.
Added to the pressures from Ukraine yesterday were the demands expressed in a previous meeting in Estonia between ministers or senior defense officials from ten NATO countries, who spoke out for sending more heavy weapons, including tanks, to kyiv.
Russia He has warned that the arrival of these tanks would be “extremely dangerous” because they would give rise to attacks in territories that the Kremlin already considers its own.
Source: Eitb
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