Germany still refuses to provide modern tanks to Ukraine, but continues to send other types of weapons, including, in particular, self-propelled howitzers. The head of the Bundestag Defense Committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, announced the dispatch of another batch of 24 units.. She is quoted by Die Zeit.

“More self-propelled howitzers were delivered to Ukraine. There are 24 units. Six to seven Gepard self-propelled guns will also be provided, ”Strak-Zimmerman said on the air of the RTL Direkt program..

The representative of the Bundestag noted that she personally also advocates sending Ukraine modern Leopard and Marder tanks, but the government still does not support this initiative..

According to Struck-Zimmerman, their provision is now simply necessary and she no longer sees any reason not to do this..

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Recall that Ukraine sent requests for German tanks from the first months of the war, but the local authorities categorically refused to fulfill the requests of Kyiv. The day before, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba once again expressed a lack of understanding of the position of the German government, which states that it wants Ukraine to win as soon as possible, but does not dare to make the decisions necessary for this..