Poland said it would ask Germany for permission to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine - and would send them whether or not Berlin agreed
While German foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, told her EU counterparts she would not stand in the way of other countries sending their German-made Leopards to Ukraine, sources in Berlin warned that any decision to lift re-export controls would still have to be cleared by the country’s Federal Security Council.but even to authorise the re-export of Leopards in other arsenals has exasperated officials across the EU.
Germany must technically approve exports of its tanks from third party nations, however Poland has said it will go ahead and export the tanks to Ukraine anyway The Netherlands, Finland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Sweden have all indicated they are willing to send some of their Leopards to Ukraine, once they have cle]arance from Berlin.
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