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Leela JACINTO

UK offers tanks in Ukraine’s hour of need, but will Germany follow suit?

Ukraine Germany United Kingdom Rod Thornton Olaf Scholz United States Ramstein Berlin Britain Lloyd Austin

File photo of a British Challenger 2 tank at a military training area near Belsen, Germany, taken on January 21, 2003. © Joerg Sarbach, AP

Britain’s offer to send more than a dozen Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine has increased pressure on Germany to do likewise with its coveted Leopard 2 battle tanks. But the German defence minister’s resignation on Monday, just days before a critical meeting at the US Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, has raised questions over whether Berlin will give the green light for battle tank exports to Ukraine.

Tanks have rolled onto centre stage this week as members of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group are set to meet at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany on Friday, January 20, for a third such gathering since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year.

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