Berlin on Wednesday approved the delivery of powerful German-made Leopard tanks to help Ukraine repel Russia's invasion, after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and many allies.
BERLIN — Berlin on Wednesday approved the delivery of powerful German-made Leopard tanks to help Ukraine repel Russia's invasion, after weeks of pressure from Kyiv and many allies.
Scholz, who had faced fierce accusations of dithering over whether to send the tanks, will take questions in the Bundestag German parliament. The Kremlin warned Wednesday that if Western countries supply Ukraine with heavy tanks they will be destroyed on the battlefield."These tanks burn like all the rest. They are just very expensive," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Amid the fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine, Kyiv and several of its allies have been urging Germany for weeks to allow the delivery of the Leopards, but a US-led meeting of Kyiv's allies in Germany last week failed to yield a decision.Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki accused the Germans on Tuesday of "dragging their feet, dithering and behaving in a manner that is difficult to understand.
"If the United States decides to supply tanks, it will be impossible to justify such step using arguments about 'defensive weapons'," he said, according to a post on the Russian Embassy's official Facebook page.Under Berlin's war weapons control rules, countries using German-made armaments are required to seek Berlin's permission if they wish to transfer them to a third party.
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