Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine despite pressure from NATO partners.
Defence ministers from more than 50 countries met in Germany on Friday to discuss the next stage of military support for Kyiv.
Al Jazeera’s Step Vaessen reports from Ramstein Air Base, Germany.
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Putin will thank and spare German when Russia take over the Europe. Wise decision for protecting Berlin’s civilians I would say.
West, tell Zelensky to use kittens…if the leopards refuse to fight.
Step Vaessen, the seasoned liar from Dutch NPO, use to cover China for the Dutch state TV NPO…..
What have Corrupt Comedian Zelenskyy done to the 2,000+ tanks donated to Ukraine? Black market?
What a shame if onley the comedian looked at afghanistan iraq syria libya how the west leaves these countrys after the meddling death destruction,iraq is poisoned with depleted uranium from the bombs,almost every baby born there is abnormal disabled by birth.Minks accord ring a bell mr comedian.🇧🇩
Oloz the chancellor has no confidence of sending tanks to Ukraine
Hahahahahaha 😂😂
Let’s just say the West truly believes all the crazy stuffs about Putin claimed by all the so called “Western leaders”.
Are we willing to bet mankind’s existence that Putin is crazy but not crazy enough to launch his nukes?
Fatare sailamen yiwured
It baffles me that no country is pushing for a diplomatic solution. Sending more weapons will not help Ukraine.
Ukraine already got everything it needs says Bydn
Slava Russia 🇷🇺 Z- from Monterey California
It looks like the US is actually trying to weaken Germany and not Russia.
Leopard 2 tanks won’t get “every inch” of Ukraine territory back. That is just the truth. Start dialogue and negotiate already before WW3 breaks out.
BREAKING NEWS:- Reason why the Leopard 2 Tank being delayed. Is because there are basically 💩, and a embarrassment to Germany 🇩🇪.
The US and EU always said the WORLD support supplying Ukraine with weapons for their proxy war against Russia. More than 80% of the world population does not support the US and EU. Only the US and EU Anglo Saxons support them. The US and EU take the 80%of the world population as irrevelant. They have a superiority mind set over others with their hypocrisy and racism .
Never rely on USA. That is the lesson every time. Once the USA gets scared, they always fold.
Smart move by Germany not sending Tanks they don’t want to escalate this into WW3.
may Ukraine be destroyed
Don’t dance to Zelenskys and the BIDEN devil’s tune
Looks like Ukraine needs to negotiate like should have happen before all the death and destruction!
Over 7500 Ukronazis tanks already destroyed.
So easy…asking others countries to support him…why don’t he ask Israel for weapon?
DECISIVE? When you yourselves cannot decide to send tanks to Ukraine ASAP. HAHAHAHA
These are the same tanks that Yemeni turned into scrap metals in war with the Saudis.
The war started without Germans consent so Americans should pick up the tabs for the war.
For now
You cannot trust this kind of government. Allies should have 100% commitments. Not 50/50. Those kind pf government cannot be trusted. Double minded. Its either do or die. Possitive or negative. But not in the middle.
Who is Liar people?
All the NATO members is anti Russia,
Us secretary is Liar man.
JAVelin then HIMARS, the Ghost of Kiev, Bayratkars, now tanks. What’s next?
why can’t Ukrainian just impeach zelensky so someone new with brains can make a good decision on ending the war… nobody talking about how ukraine was killing Russians in the territory Russia is wanting to claim.. Ukraine did wrong Russia and never want to own up to it😤
Good Germany is thinking smart..
Germany has finally learned from their history.
Denazification has to be extended to sweden after Ukraine.
Finally someone teaching Europe a Lesson.
Im so happy to have witnessed it.
Go on Russia, dont stop until Paris.
Leopards and Challengers can’t change the fate of this war!!
Didn’t European tanks used by the Turkish army showed poor performance in Syria?
It was very quick to send them to Poland in 1939.
What tanks survive the Russian artillery would be destroyed or captured for study. With the terrain after training they wouldn’t be viable for months due to the spring melt as its too far into winter to be deciding now
Dont send it germany
Why isn’t anyone questioning US for not sending Abraham tanks?
Good news at last.
No tanks; but more stronger artilleries, long range missiles and air power will come for Ukraine to defeat barbaric Russia. Mighty God’s plan is to stop this absurd war after total collapse of Russia and Putin tyranny.
Germany and France are two coward clowns. they keep executing appeasement policy to Russia. they still imagine to lick Putin’s DiK so that Russia brings peace and petroleum to them. In fact during world war two Germany and France ever played so ugly roles. it is too shame.
America is pursing its interest
Why shouldn’t Germany and France pursue its interest
Lots of Russian bots here I see! Cowardly to not send tanks so that a country can defend itself. Germany worries about itself and Russia, so it sits by and sends enough to make itself look like it is trying to help. No worries, the rest of NATO and the world will do the right thing.
Ukraine has every right to defend its self
Germany isn’t obliged to aid 🎉😂
@Sharwama Morally it is. Legally it isn’t. Doesnt matter as the rest of the world will help the Ukraine. This will undoubtedly hurt Germany’s relative monopoly on tanks going forward as the world will likely look to other manufacturers without restrictions on sending tanks to other allies.
Stupid dump Germany, after Ukraine, Russian will attack Germany soon as possible
You wish
Does Zelenskiy think he can win the war with Russia just by German tanks ? Or does he actually have no intention of finishing this horrible war in the first place ? Negotiate for the time being for the sake of innocent people of Ukraine, at least for them !
Russian evil terrorist state, destroy to terrorist putin regime
Why Nato France not in this?
They have over 800 modern Leclerc tanks?
Boris Johnson and Biden scammed Ukraine… They should’ve accepted the peace proposals
Germany isn’t stupid.
Germany showing some balls
Why only Germany thou
Facts
Chiefs of Germany are still unmadman
Glory to Deutschland😂🥳
Zelensky saying something about “evil Russia”. Now the question is asked : The bombings Zelensky did since 2014….for 8 years on the pro Russian people in the Donbas region , was that holy or was that evil? Now he met his match!
All terrorist group United America Army
Besides the obiden crime family and their globalist handlers, nobody is interested in zelenskyy’s war for profits….jhjjj
Instead of begging for tanks. Ukraine should buy the tanks from Germany or someone else .
Buy it.
No no no no no , Ukraine is going to on sell the tanks on the black market to China n Russia 😂😂😂😂
Pathetic. So much for the united “west”. Can’t even agree to give 14 old german tanks to their so called “ally”. Nah, the world is already waking up to what you are doing, you satanic globalist cabal.
Ukraine claims to be destroying thousands of russian tanks without using german tanks. So the german is thinking, what is the need to send german tanks? Now everybody can see that the germans aren’t stupid!!!
You can’t win a big war with borrowed weapons.
Javelin Rockets those things are better then tanks is what Ukraine needs, doesn’t the USA have older tanks that don’t take rocket fuels, Ukraine’s in the fight for it’s survival, we need to give the something powerful.
“No Tanks for Ukraine, NATO Allies Fail to Agree”👍👍👍 for nearly a millenia, Ukrainians have hated Russia and Russians. It was a wise move from congressman Lindsey Graham to go into Ukraine immediately to gathered up all of Ukraine’s nuclear weapons in 2014 days after Ukrainians overthrew the complacent Victor Yankovic.
If not for this quick proactive move, by US congress, all of Europe and half the globe would have been buried in nuclear radioactive ash with a staggering death toll. Russia would not have sent a special military operationn in Ukraine. Instead, Russia would have fired a tactical nuclear war head on all the major cities in Europe.
I cannot see how the Leopard2 tank is gonna change the outcome of the war in Ukraine? Neither is the Challenger 2 nor even Abram…especially in such small quantities? It is so obvious there is a hidden agenda to force the Germans to send their Leopard 2 tanks to fight the Russian. To further poison German and Russian relationship into perpetuity? But is to be seen if this is achievable? Both countries are neighbors and they have the choice of either living in peace or war? A change in government in Germany will also change the equation?
Haha leprt tank tbha ho jaye ga Ukrainian ma
Idiotic puppetskey thinks leopard tanks will defeat Russia,what a clown.
Zilinski Words are weak
Not even Ukrainians and Russian die. African people too because of tons of wheat that doenst go out. Instead to shipping it to africa (Angola!!) they ship it to Spain for feeding animals…
I only wish peace and real values of humanity. That so it seems doesnt exists on both side.. Greetz from Germany.
Let us ponder about the reasons for Scholz not to deliver: 1) unify the West ? clearly not 2) support Ukraine ? no 3) passive-aggressive personality ? I d belive rathe that. Politicians are frequently narcicisstic, Scholz is not so obviously narcicisstic, rather a concealed narcicisst. He seems to feel to be treated in an injust manner. Not to deliver mightt be his strategy to account for that. The only way to reasonably cope witrh that problem: Poland and other countries might, backed by all other european and NATO partners, deliver without allowance by Prnicess Scholz. He deserves that
These people got very short memory for things like the one happened back in 1968 in Prague with soviet tanks enforcing their socialist “democracy”. The evil empire is still kicking and it must get subdued by whatever it takes.
Ukraine war raised a huge demand for Leopard Tanks in the Int’l Arms Market. Hold it on Olof, Good for German Industry.
Would not really matter what the US/NATO/NATO members sends… Russia’s newest gen of T-90 tanks will destroy those Leopard 2s and the West is highly interested to capture a T-90 to further enhancements to the M1A2 Abrams series… the Apache is the engineered result from Russia’s Hind gunship during the Soviet Union war in Afghanistan and then again access to all Soviet weaponry after the fall of the USSR that was a planned dissolution between Reagan and Gorbachev as the beginning was the reunification of West/East Germany on the promise that the US and Western nations will help to create a new better Russia but will honor its sovereignty as an equal partner and that NATO will not move east beyond Germany’s borders but all in all we saw what the West did to Russia that wanted to exploit and steal of its resources but until Putin was elected stopped what was in motion very quickly.
Gorbachev enjoyed his rewards living in the US as an automatic citizen and a gift of $200 million USD and added armed security not bad for him and the guarantees made for his security in the United States but for Russians were screwed over and nearly ended in a civil war that Boris Yeltsin’s actions in 1993.
Besides Russia has all those new toys and having the entire military complex working around the clock 6 days a week of 24-hour shift producing heavy weapons, munitions and smart hypersonic weapons and more – they have the infrastructure and have unlimited raw resources to accomplish their mission in Ukraine.
I was so hoping that Russia would have dropped the FOAB on those nationalist-Banderas that leaves a 300m crater and between 100m to 150m deep hole – it would have only taken several of those to destroy the entire military forces they have on the ground… but, alas that Russia wants to have positive future with Ukraine in the near future after the nationalist regime has been removed from government and the military and be a neutral state.
Maybe Spring 2023 will be the end of the nationalist and the end of the US/NATO proxy in Ukraine?!
NATO needs to pull their heads out their butts. Give ukraine what they need to defeat Russia 😡
If this escalates the war then so be it, It NEEDS escalation the longer we sit and watch Putin do what he’s doing the more we appear okay with it.putin is a criminally and terrorist Ukraine’s allies must speak up and get on the side of good, we should not stand by and watch evil.
In a day , the Russian army destroyed:
over 300 Ukrainian servicemen;
14 armored combat vehicles;
7 cars;
destroyed 3 US-made counter-battery radar stations AN/TPQ-48 and AN/TPQ-37 and AN/TPQ-36;
4 D-20 howitzers;
4 D-30 howitzers;
The APU artillery ammunition depot was destroyed.
Fighter aircraft of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down a Su-25 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force in the air.
During the day, 9 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed.
Two rockets of the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system manufactured in the USA were shot down. An American anti-radar missile HARM has been intercepted.
All Elon is saying is give peace a chance. Ukraine turned on its Russian citizens.
There is time for war, & a time to make peace…with western support crumpling, this is a time to make peace. This war is getting boring now!
Ukraine don’t have to beg Russia for free tanks :D, now Ukraine tanks can’t march
If they did send them, they will end up in thousands of pieces like every tank in this war
Tanks are now pretty much like the good old days the mighty battleships, obsolete in modern times/warfare. Target practice for smart missiles.
All Military intelligence n governments knows that any high technology weapons given to Ukraine would just be on sold on the black market!!! 😂😂😂
Germany became such a softie!
The most interesting thing is that Ukraine will receive Leopards even without the approval of Germany.
The only result for Germany will be the loss of authority and it will cease to be the “center of Europe”
for Scholz, this is definitely a loss of political authority …
Let’s unite our efforts for the victory of Ukraine!
The Putin regime must be completely defeated.
This makes me sad. Realizing that once more human ambitions and fears became a reason of someone suffering. Everybody knows Ukraine needs our military aid, everybody knows they will receive it sooner or later, but there’s always someone like Scholz who makes up an utterly stupid excuse for not helping. Does he understand the price the Ukrainians are paying for his hesitant behavior? Does he understand putin will not stop until he is stopped? Either his despotic regime will be stopped or this war will spill out and endanger other European countries.
This is a decisive moment in this war and the world must rally around Ukraine even more strongly by providing it with tanks and other heavy equipment. Every doubt is a chance for Russia
Scholz defies all common sense and has the wrong policy
Why is Scholz hesitant? Almost everyone has already agreed to give tanks and he is the only one stopping the process. Such decisions give Russia a chance to succeed
Scholz is doing a disgusting thing. He does not understand that only by uniting can evil be defeated. Or maybe he just doesn’t want to
World War II was won, in part, because of world cohesion. When the United States and Britain began to actively give armaments. Now Germany is making a big mistake by delaying the transfer of tanks
I also think so. If Russian gets the victory, they will accumulate their weapons and strike for a new country. Who know it also can be Germany
But Germany’s official position is to support Ukraine. Scholz makes a mistake. I don’t think he has the right to do that now
Scholz should be more decisive. He should be a decisive leader and not embarrass his country. Especially since the Germans themselves understand and support the transfer of tanks to Ukraine.
Yes! I’m shocked that he behaves like that. Why citizens don’t go on protests
Scholz’s behavior is disgusting. More people are dying now because of him, also because of him the war is now being stretched. Only by a common effort can the world defeat Russia
Nowadays is the best time to increase our help and stop Russian terror. No stopping out help only giving more
Lol, too bad for ruzzia.
No mercy for the toilet thieves.
🇺🇸 ❤ 🇺🇦
Right now Ukraine badly needs tanks. It is a huge help to Ukraine that most people support. We must help Ukraine now to defeat evil before it comes to other territories as well.
Everyone approved the delivery of Leopards, except Scholz. He apparently wants to meet Putin and his army in the center of Berlin.
I think the West needs to think less and do more. Any weaponry in large quantities will come in handy for Ukraine to fight the occupiers. Why is it taking so long for everyone to send weapons?
Might as well put Germany in charge of deciding to send the British cops to catch the woman paedophile on British TV who absolutely everyone knows about.
Stop funding Ukraine with our tax money 💰
The supply of weapons to Ukraine should not stop, because if Putin is not stopped now, he will move on to other countries.