Ukrainian soldiers in the field now use German Gepard anti-aircraft guns to defend their skies, German anti-tank weapons to pierce Russian armour, and German howitzers to shell enemy troops.
But the prize that Ukraine urgently seeks to regain territory before an expected Russian offensive this spring, the German-manufactured Leopard 2 battle tank, remains frustratingly out of reach.
Germany is one of the largest donors of military hardware to Ukraine, but over 11 months of war, Berlin has only stepped up deliveries under pressure and only after other allies made the first move.
If it were to provide the battle tanks, or even licence the re-export of Leopards from other countries’ arsenals, it would mark the first time that Berlin has led on weapons exports since the war began.
Germany’s defence minister says Berlin hasn’t changed its position – but will make a decision soon.
Al Jazeera’s Dominic Kane reports from Berlin, Germany.
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They fear a total defeat of Russian army would destabilize Russia.
The leopard 🐆 could never defeat the 🐻 bear
@King Sounds Of Israel nah, reality is Russia’s military is garbage and only prigozhin’s wagner is effective albeit because they use prisoners as cannon fodder
@Cyrus Wu he will see soon
@Klaus Niemand mobilization papers coming his way 😂
Even a falcon can chase away a bear!
American military is too afraid to send their Abraham tanks to Ukraine,fearing the Russian military will destroy it within days of deployment.American tanks are good only to fight poor countries and not against Russia or China.
I thought winter was bad time for tanks. Now it’s a must have
It’s for the spring offensives.
I mean winter is almost over
Yu really think off night they going to have these tanks😂😂
Depends. Thermal Optics are actually much more usefull in Winter and as long as the ground is frozen it’s good to drive on.
All the lepard tanks send to Ukraine will be replaced by abrams tanks. Germany will loose the market share of the European tanks. It’s baffling to see Europeans so naive to the fact that the US is the ultimate beneficiary of this madness.
It’s best to focus on the war for the war. Later trade and relations can be reestablished. Goodwill is generated mostly at the conclusion of conflict.
Ukraine is not Europe
Wrong. Russia is Europe as well
Ukraine is a corrupt country in the middle of a war
Ukraine is right in the middle of Europe, South East of the European city of Moscow.
Pleasing a misbehaving counterpart through placation does not make them respect or like you.
@Dino Ziemann agreed. But the ideas behind the war on the western side are about territorial integrity of nation states. It’s relatively simple and broadly shared, even among many countries that are not too fond of the west.
old news already it just got known germany will send tanks and also allows others to send them on top of this america is about to send abraham tanks too.
Other way around actually.. on top of america delivering Abrahams, Germany decided to deliver. (As it was promised)
@Some One Scholz set the ultimatum. USA followed that ultimatum. Quite the power move to be fair.
@Some One I really hope the Ukrainians get them as soon as possible. And I hope that with the help of these tanks they will liberate their territories and civilians from the occupants
Its like you have a Mercedes sedan and your friend has a Toyota Prius. Some gangs attack you and you forcefully take your friend’s Prius to go fight them and hide your Mercedes. That’s what the US is doing with Germany.😃😃😃
They mad a decision Germany will allow the exports and send 14.
I DO NOT MEAN TO BE MALICIOUS BUT IT HAS TAKEN SINCE WW2 FOR YOUR NATION TO BE SEEN IN A DIFFERENT LIGHT AND YOU PLAY UP WITH SENDING TANKS DO THE RIGHT THING MAKE YOUR FUTURE GENERATIONS PROUD AND GET MOVING YOU NEED TO GET TOUGH AND GET GOING PLEASE !!!!!!!!GLORY TO UKRAINE !!!!!!!!!!!
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You’re late. German government approved it.
Yes, but were are going get all that fuel. Please remember these 60 ton beast. During America’s Desert Strom II in 2003 the King of Saudi Arabia built a “massive pipeline” of fuel toward the north staging ground for American forces. That INSANE, America forces had an all most unlimited supply of fuel for there war. That not the case for Ukraine.
I wander why they dnt support o send tank to Africa to fight for terrorist but maybe they are d once supporting them o blacks are not human
But were are going to get all the fuel for these massive mainline western battle tanks?
RUSSIA 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
From the solar panels.
Uncle Sam will supply them. At four times the price, of course😁
Glory to RUSSIA 💪💪💪👏
RUSSIAN T90M- greatist tank💪💪💪👍
Very fake tank
@Ionnanis Killiorus which, the Abrams or the leopard? Or maybe you’re mistaking them for the HAARM! 😆 🤣 😂
@Faraaz Zafar 🇷🇺 No it def Russian tanks that have the international turret tossing competition in the bag 😂😂
@Ionnanis Killiorus turret tossing – yes turret tossed- not really lol 😆 😂 😅
Time to have actual war thunder footage. Lmao.
Poland’s president went on air and issued an ultimatum to Germany and saying he doesn’t intend to honor the tank purchase agreement Europe will soon be at each other’s throats history doesn’t lie
Leopards are coming to Ukraine. So will Abrams. Hopefully soon. Ruzzkies prepare to face the American Economic and Technological Might 💪
@Faraaz Zafar 🇷🇺 porkistanis should worry about their own country.
Them sending main battle tanks ain’t gonna change the tide of war🤣
Will those tanks withstand Russian hypersonic weapons? Interesting to see.
@ronnel acido agreed! 😆 🤣
@ronnel acido Did Moskva survive anti Ship missile or is it undergoing a Special Underwater Military Operation?
Better get stronger coffee, Al Jazeera. You are slacking off lol. This is old news.
A bunch of war criminals wanting more blood to feel better about themselves while getting rich
000 Send wheeled tanks and heavy tanks, they will get stuck in the fields of Ukraine in the spring and become prey to the Russians
578 Europe is on the side of Zelensky, who banned the Communist Party as Hitler, dissolved all TV channels and left one TV channel as Hitler, stripped the citizenship of 19 priests, stripped the citizenship of the leaders of opposition parties. Banned speaking the language of millions of people living in Ukraine. In Europe, the rights of an ethnic minority are protected by law, and in Ukraine, laws prohibit teaching in Russian, which is their native language. What kind of democracy are you talking about in Ukraine? What kind of religious freedom are you talking about? What kind of freedom of choice of the language of instruction are you talking about?
Umm, it’s hesitation, not hesitance
This message was published some minutes after Germany, finally, announced it would send 14 A6
So to say it didnt age well would be an understatement.
Not even 14 but 28. They will send 14 now and 14 more later. Now other countries will send theirs too, seems like more than 100 in total.
Fierce battles are taking place at the front right now, so we need to increase Ukraine’s military potential for future victory!
By supplying infantry fighting vehicles, guns, tanks, helicopters and NATO officers, the capitals of these countries are not afraid of the arrival of missiles on the roofs of their homes?
Patriot missiles. Keeping their fingers crossed🤞
“Heavier and faster than all Russian tanks”. Same was Tiger at 1940s
This time we The West will get Russia to her knees. Watch and see.
Yes, but it took the Soviets, on average, more tanks to destroy a Tiger when not using heavy tanks themselves. And now like back then, it’s quality over quantity.
Except that in today’s modern warfare, tank-to-tank battles will not happen as they did 80 years before. Mobile, more powerful and more lethal anti-tank weapons will render even the most modern main battle tanks vulnerable in the battlefield.
Scholz masterpiece acting! His stubbornness forced Biden into sending Abrams tanks, too. A phone call between them was leaked and it seems Scholz made Abrams delivery as condition for sending leopards. Ukraine will be happy.
Germany just scared of Russia
How naive.pleading and begging to others and change the definition of terms used in order to gain favor. This happen because of your incompetent and cannot accept the reality of what you are facing.
@philjackson Do you mean Ukraine, Germany or me? Your english stil is unique. If you mean me: It is fact that the phone call was leaked and it was a german condition to share the risk provoking russia, with usa sending abrams too. The white house officially criticized Germany for letting it leak, which proofs its true. The republican Michael McCaul responded to the leak with: Well then send only 1 abrams to kill their argument. Whatever the truth may be, I dont think Biden would have sent any abrams without the pressure share set up by Scholz.
Scholz seems to be very controlled in his stubbornness into aggregating others to act aswell. It seems to be working. It’s a weird way to go about it but idk if it works it works I guess.
Czech republic refuses to send Leopards. Ducking away.
This is the evid of all who pursues prey: it leads to the loss of life.
Ukraine will now be able to wage an effective war against Russia. Olaf Scholz changed his mind and gave the go-ahead for the delivery of Leopards. Now countries will be able to send tanks to Ukraine to protect people. But the supply of weapons must not be stopped.
@Dino Ziemann For Yahweh watches over the way of the righteous;
the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
I think Ukraine needs more qualified personnel, lots of them…
Are they running out of manpower? Maybe call upon those military-age men who have slipped overseas to return home and help man zelensky’s newest toys🤔
@ronnel acido Dude, even some government officials have started to resign, killed in accidents, and arrested for corruption cases.
Don’t ask about the current availability of Ukrainian military personnel, they are not very open about this!
What’s behind? Scruples! And scruples are good and important! Nevertheless Germany is already third most supporter of Ukraine in weapons and money..
Scholtz clearly wants murderous Russia to win. He is a traitor to the free world!
When those tanks get blown to bit they going become de valued
They should worth at least in scrap yard value.
They didn’t wanted to give. It was against German will and it show they are just slave to USA
You can’t defeat Wagner 😂
Russia will have to keep emptying out its prisons then for the meat grinder
Why doesn’t Qatar send some of their Hamas terrorist Allie’s to The Ukraine
Seeing these tanks performance during the Syrian war, I’ll be expecting even better explosions from russian RPGs. The overratedness of this tanks needs to be vastly tested. I like the tank, but we’ll see how it goes at the end of this war.
If you have the right strategy and tactics also disciplined troops… it can maximize the advantages and minimize the weaknesses of every weapon, including tanks like that!
This is German law, not to send weapons to war countries. That’s all. USA+ISRAEL are outlaws and criminal gangsters, and do not adhere to any laws.
NATO is a big criminal organization.
What about Russia? Saints?
@Guest2000 NOrmal people, who want to live free,
@Johann Reiter sure sure
Fence sitting like many Baltic countries who support Russia war effort thru energy etc. but with Germany they’re more inclined to hinder for China support of other authoritarian imperialist countries like North Korea, Myanmar, Thailand, Russia, Iran etc. It will take ages to train to use tanks that Germany has given Russia a leg up with indecision.
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Its hard for them to say they dont support Ukraine
If we stop now, things will get even worse, and terrorists will behave even more shamefully
@Audra Klein If Ukraine has nothing to defend itself with, war will come to other countries. Europe will then be in danger
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The leopard 2 just gonna end up destroyed by the Mi-28.
They lost quite a lot of them already.
More wet dreams of putin enjoyers xD
T-14 armata
Der Bundeswehr verweigerer scholz dee nie soldat wetden wolle will nun den krieg eskalieren um den dritten weltkrieg hervorrufen. Russland wird all diese waffen weiter zerstören. vielleicht wären gespräche friedlicher
انه دبابة غبية وكبيرة تي 90 سوف تهزم وتدمر هذي الدبابة النازية
اضافة هذي الدبابة تحتاج الكثير من وقود حليب الأبقار الدنماركي والهولندي
The best way to remove threats is for Russia to start culling.
[What’s behind Germany’s hesitance over Leopard 2 battle tanks?]
Well, considering the past close connection of the SPD and ScholZ with PooTin’s RuZzia, it should not be surprising.
And, it’s wrong to separate political leaders from their publics/nations. It’s a no brainer that politicians are a reflection of society. Just like PooTin represents RuZzia and TrumPoo represents AmeriKKKa, ScholZ represents Yeast GERMany.🤮
Politics aside, can we talk about how cool the tanks look?
Smart move. 👍Germany doesn’t want to become the West’s battering ram against Russian wrath. They know that they may find themselves alone to fend for themselves if push comes to shove. Not worth a risk seeing what happened to Ukraine.
Brained washed one sided news! All this is due to NATO expansion! WW3 us near!
Political turmoil in Europe could spread east as the leaders of South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Japan attend a NATO summit, prompting China’s top diplomat to warn that enlargement of the bloc could spark a confrontation
*— RT🇷🇺*
(June 30, 2022)
Chinas top diplomats are always whining about something at any given time.
Bring them we eat them like the other junk you sent.I promise you that this war is the end of the US hegemony(also referred to in the Bible as Babylon the Great,the mother of all the harlots and of the disgusting things of the Earth)
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🇺🇲 Biden: “As the leaders of out two nations, we share responsibility, in my view, to show that China and the US can manage our differences, prevent competition from becoming anything even near conflict and find ways to work together on urgent, global issues that require our mutual cooperation,” Biden said in his opening remarks.
🇨🇳 Xi said: “History is the best textbook, so we should take history as a mirror and let it guide our future.”
The United States of America is in danger.
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Yeah, Ukraine is winning on twitter… Real life is a completely different matter. Ukraine already lost most trained and motivated soldiers along with almost all hardware it had before the war plus hundreds of tanks and IFVs it got from Eastern Europe (to understand the scale of losses it had 1 990 tanks, 1 212 IFVs, 1 112 heavy artillery systems, 354 multiple rocket launchers). Its army is a shadow of its former self at the beginning of the war. Zelenskyy is catching and forced conscripting often at gunpoint mostly people with zero motivation to die for him, who never served in the army, often disabled. When such people are in the trenches, it means that the front can collapse at any moment. Biden administration is becoming really desperate.
“Biden administration is becoming really desperate.” 🤦♂😂
@Waage001 As if they weren’t already desperate with a million other crisis’s happening
NATO are wasting their equipments in Ukraine
Let’s hope the Russians get these tanks and reverse engineer them
Germany’s seen the light.
Finally Germany almost fuckef up
I think Germany deed wrong
Ukraine will be decisively be defeated 100%. Clowns!
It’s time for German to show their for father’s deep hidden hereditary traits. Good luck German save your Azov guys…
Wtf are you on about, little russian bot? Are you scared of German tanks coming for your ivans on the battlefield? Then go home please, Ukraine is not your home.
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The Ukrainian army is now really fighting for the whole world, so support should only grow, not only for the benefit of Ukraine, but also for the whole world
Ukraine must get all the weapons it needs to liberate its territories and expel the Russian occupiers
It makes me very sad to see Germany hesitate to give Ukraine the tanks it needs. The whole world is united and everyone is trying to help as much as they can, but not Germany
it is good that many countries agree to help Ukraine win over Putin. Many realize that this terrorist would not stop at Ukraine and would go after Europe.
Now the necessary weapons must go to Ukraine without interruption. If there is no supply of weapons, Ukraine will not be able to wage an effective war against Russia. And the war is not just about Ukraine, it is an ideological war.
Absolutely right. Ukraine fights not only for their freedom but for our too. Russia wants to grab all the world. It cannot to be real
It is good that Scholz decided to supply tanks to Ukraine after all. This is another fine example of the right decision, but the strength of the right decisions lies in the speed with which they are made
How long does it take ? Ukraine could probably go back on eastern side. We can afford so much time to take a decision
World War II was won, in part, because of world cohesion. When the United States and Britain began to actively give armaments.
This war has very common with ww2. Unfortunately, that we repeat the same mistakes
Courage is important then tank for Ukraine…
Courage can’t destroy Russian weapons by that civilians have been killed
why is NATO imperialism accepted but not Russian imperialism, seems a bit hypocritical
Russia is a terrorist state. Their leaders is a dictator who wants to grab the whole world
All countries have to support our propose and give Ukraine more weapons. Right now!
Support Russia 🇷🇺