Next week, Germany may announce a decision to supply Leopard tanks to Ukraine. The country gravitates toward a positive decision in favor of Ukraine. This is reported by Bloomberg.
With increasing calls for Berlin to provide heavy tanks, Germany is likely to decide to provide the Leopard, according to two officials familiar with German government thinking.
It is expected that the decision will be made before the meeting of senior defense officials of the allied countries at the American air base Ramstein on January 20. German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht will reportedly send a clear message about the Leopard at the meeting.
Yes, as of Thursday, Germany has not yet made a concrete decision, but according to another European official, the pressure on Germany to supply tanks is increasing.
The publication writes that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ready to back down from his initial resistance to sending Leopard tanks, or that he may allow countries such as Poland and Finland to send their own Leopards to Ukraine.
At the same time, it is still unclear whether Germany's decision will concern only the permission of other countries to transfer Leopard to Ukraine, or whether Germany itself will also send them.