“Of course, that possibility cannot be ruled out,” Finance Minister Robert Habeck said
Germany cannot rule out the possibility that send Leopard tanks, which are stronger than the light Marder, to support the Ukrainian military forces in the future, the Minister of Finance emphasized today, Sunday, speaking to the ARD television station.
“Of course, that possibility cannot be ruled out,” said Robert Habeck.
On Friday, Germany announced that it intends to deliver approx 40 Marder tanks in Ukraine before the end of March, a decision Habeck said was the right one and should have been made long ago.
The German press asked on Saturday whether after the supply of the Marder to Ukraine followed by Leopard.
Her commentator Tagesschau inevitably makes the next thought. “Now that the chancellor of the ‘time of change’, as he proclaimed, has also begun the shift in relation to the tanks he wants to supply Ukraine, the Leopard 2 tank should no longer be taboo, as increasingly strongly demanded by politicians of the opposition as well as of the governing coalition” he notes. “All of them point out that Russian President Vladimir Putin will come to the negotiating table only if he sees that he can no longer achieve anything militarily, on the other hand such surrender would also be in the interest of Germany’s own security. Because if Putin wins the war of extermination, he will feel emboldened and so it will be a much bigger threat. One thing is clear: The more (war) material Ukraine has to expend on its defense campaign, the greater the pressure on Soltz to back down here as well. The Marder debate may be over, but this one for Leopard it has just begun”.
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