10 days ago
The New York Times
Poland’s defense minister said on Tuesday that his country had formally requested Germany’s permission to send Ukraine Leopard tanks from its own stocks, and other countries have indicated that they would do the same. We are acting internationally in a closely coordinated and concerted fashion,” Mr. Scholz said in Berlin on Wednesday morning. Image Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany meeting with troops in front of a Leopard 2 tank in Ostenholz, Germany, in October. But Mr. Scholz had stuck to a policy of waiting to act until Germany’s partners did — in particular, Washington. Germany could also send more tanks to Ukraine if the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which already gave their Soviet model tanks to Kyiv in exchange for promises to receive Leopard 2s, agreed to have their own deliveries delayed in favor of Ukraine.
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