The German government has been ignoring Ukraine's requests for further arms supplies for several months, DW reports with reference to Die Welt..

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Over the past ten weeks, Ukrainian diplomats have repeatedly raised the issue of arms supplies with the German Ministry of Defense, but the ministry, as well as the office of the Federal Chancellor, leaves requests unanswered.

In particular, starting from June, several high-level meetings were held monthly at the German Ministry of Defense, in which the head of the department, Christine Lambrecht, also participated..

During these meetings, the Ukrainian side each time asked Germany to continue to supply it with the types of weapons that had already been supplied before - Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled gun mounts and Mars II multiple launch rocket systems.. Germany has already delivered 10 such howitzers and three MLRS to Kyiv.

The Ukrainian side also asked to give the German defense industry permission to export tanks and armored vehicles to Ukraine.. In particular, back in April, Ukraine received an offer from the Rheinmetall concern to purchase one hundred Marder infantry fighting vehicles and 88 Leopard-1 tanks, including ammunition and briefing, for 268 million euros..

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In mid-August, Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov personally discussed this problem by phone with his German counterpart Lambrecht. Earlier, the head of the President's Office, Andriy Yermak, and Jens Plotner, foreign policy adviser to the Federal Chancellor, discussed the same topic over the phone.. "

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