According to information published on the German Newspaper website “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” on December 7, 2022, the United States encouraged the Government of Germany to deliver modern German-made Leopard 2 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) to Ukraine.
Citing information published on the German “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” newspaper website, President Biden’s security advisor, Jake Sullivan, has encouraged Germany to supply Ukraine with Leopard 2 Main Battle Tanks (MBTs).
On October 28, 2022, Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Oleksii Makeiev said during an interview published by the Ukrainian news website LIGA, that Germany will eventually transfer Leopard 2 MBTs to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
To this day Germany has always refused to deliver tanks to Ukraine, despite numerous requests from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The Ukrainian ambassador in Germany is confident that Germany will be ready to take a decision for the supply of armored vehicles and tanks to Ukraine.
In recent weeks, Germany announced the delivery of military equipment, weapons and light armored vehicles to Ukraine as well as multiple launch rocket systems, self-propelled howitzers, man-portable air defense systems, and air defense missile systems.
Citing information from defense companies Rheinmetall and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, Germany can quickly provide 80 Leopard 2 tanks and another batch of 30 tanks which are used by the Bundeswehr’s combat training center.