The German government has officially announced that it will be sending its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, after weeks of diplomatic debate with its allies
The U.S. decision to deliver M1 Abrams tanks helped break a diplomatic logjam with Germany over how to best to help Kyiv in its war with Russia, which hours earlier had condemned Berlin's decision to provide Leopard 2 tanks as a dangerous provocation.
Kyiv has been calling for months for Western main battle tanks that would give its forces greater firepower, protection and mobility to break through long-static front lines and potentially reclaim occupied territory in the east and south. Germany, previously the West's holdout amid deep reluctance to export offensive weapons given its Nazi past,it would send an initial company of 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks from its own stocks and also approve shipments by allied European states.
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