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Reuters
Reuters
Politics
By Sabine Siebold

Berlin lags on defence purchases after 100 billion euro pledge - sources

FILE PHOTO: A soldier of the special forces unit KSK of Germany's army Bundeswehr holds the assault rifle G95/HK416 Heckler und Koch during a training exercise in Calw, Germany, October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Heiko Becker/File Photo

Germany is struggling to ramp up defence procurement or even just replace arms and munitions it has supplied to Kyiv, several sources told Reuters eight months after Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged 100 billion euros to bring the military up to speed.

"There is almost no movement at all," a source involved in German defence procurement procedures said on Thursday, adding very few orders had been placed so far.

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