{"id":18574,"date":"2023-01-08T10:56:04","date_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/?p=18574"},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:56:04","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:56:04","slug":"germany-reveals-stance-on-leopard-tank-deliveries-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/germany-reveals-stance-on-leopard-tank-deliveries-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany reveals stance on Leopard tank deliveries to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"The supply of heavy armor to Kiev would require coordination with foreign allies, a top politician in the German ruling coalition says<\/em><\/h4>\n
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ISLAMABAD: RT.COM -Berlin has no immediate plans to send German-made Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine, Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is part of Germany’s ruling coalition, has said.<\/strong><\/h5>\n<\/div>\n
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Despite announcing the delivery of 40 Marder infantry fighting vehicles and a US-made Patriot air defense battery to Kiev earlier this week, Berlin has been under pressure to do even more for Kiev in its conflict with Moscow, and also provide heavy armor.<\/h5>\n
Klingbeil told the N-TV broadcaster on Saturday that supplying Leopard tanks to Ukraine would require coordination with foreign allies, and cannot happen unilaterally.<\/h5>\n
\u201cNo country is delivering heavy battle tanks such as the Leopard 1 or 2\u201d<\/em> to Zelensky\u2019s government, he explained.<\/h5>\n
However, the SPD co-leader didn\u2019t rule German deliveries of heavy armor to Ukraine in the future.<\/h5>\n
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US, Germany confirm new heavy weaponry for Ukraine<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Saturday that Warsaw would not be giving Kiev its Leopard 2 tanks \u201cwithout a broader coalition\u201d<\/em> of countries willing to do the same. He was echoed by the chairman of Finland\u2019s committee on defense affairs, Antti Hakkanen, who said Helsinki would provide its Leopards if such a decision were made on the European level. Even in this case, the Finnish contribution would be \u201csmall\u201d<\/em> as it prioritizes its own defense.<\/h5>\n
Germany announced the planned delivery of Marder \u201clight tanks,\u201d<\/em> on Thursday in a joint statement with the US, which said it will be sending its Bradley infantry fighting vehicles to Ukraine. A day before, France revealed that Kiev will be getting its AMX-10 armored fighting vehicles.<\/h5>\n
The deliveries are \u201ca signal that the Western alliance is acting in close coordination and continues to strengthen Ukraine,\u201d<\/em> Klingbeil said in another interview with the RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) network.<\/h5>\n
No NATO countries have so far announced plans to supply Ukraine with Western-built main battle tanks. An unnamed US official explicitly ruled out the transfer of the US M1 Abrams tanks to Kiev, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday.<\/h5>\n
READ MORE: Russia blasts \u2018cynical\u2019 Christmas decision by Germany<\/a><\/h5>\n
Russia\u2019s embassy in Berlin suggested that Germany only agreed to send Marders to Kiev \u201cunder significant pressure from Washington, acting in line with the destructive rationale of transatlantic solidarity.\u201d This is \u201cthe moral line the German authorities shouldn\u2019t have crossed,\u201d<\/em> considering the war crimes that the Nazis committed in the Soviet Union during World War II, the statement added.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The supply of heavy armor to Kiev would require coordination with foreign allies, a top politician in the German ruling coalition says ISLAMABAD: RT.COM -Berlin has no immediate plans to send German-made Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine, Lars Klingbeil, co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is part of Germany’s ruling coalition, has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[134,3133,1458,270],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18577,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18574\/revisions\/18577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanintheworld.pk\/live\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}