The foreign ministries of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia urged Germany to send tanks to Ukraine “immediately”. This was stated in a statement by the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabrielius Landsbergis.
“As the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, we call on Germany to immediately hand over the Ukrainian Leopard tanks. This is necessary to stop Russian aggression, help Ukraine and quickly restore peace in Europe,” he wrote. Twitter.
Landsbergis emphasized that Germany “has a special responsibility in this regard” as it is the leading power in Europe.
The statement of the foreign ministers of the three Baltic states was made after the meeting of the contact group on military aid to Ukraine at the American airbase “Ramstein”. it didn’t work Coordinating the supply of tanks to Ukraine.
Boris Pistorius, new head of the German Ministry of Defense declarationthat the coalition did not agree on the supply of Leopard tanks to Kiev. According to him, this issue is being discussed in government, but there are strong arguments both for and against procurement. He couldn’t say when a decision would be made about Leopard.
At the same time, despite Germany’s rejection of Ukraine in Leopard 2 tanks will begin “Learn to manage them in Poland,” said Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov.
Source: Gazeta
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