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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Daniel Hurst Foreign affairs and defence correspondent

Australia to send surveillance aircraft to Germany to help protect supplies to Ukraine

German chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, welcomes Anthony Albanese in Berlin on Monday.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, welcomes Anthony Albanese in Berlin on Monday. Photograph: Kay Nietfeld/AP

The Australian government will send a surveillance aircraft to Germany to help monitor the flow of military and humanitarian supplies into Ukraine.

The prime minister, Anthony Albanese, announced the deployment after talks with the German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, in Berlin on Monday, a day before attending a Nato summit in Lithuania where the war in Ukraine will dominate discussions.

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