What’s behind the Chancellor’s hesitant attitude

Berlin, Brussels, Washington At a children’s hospital in Kharkiv, the Federal Foreign Minister said Annalena Barbock (Greens) the other day what they told their little daughters before leaving for the Ukraine he had said, “The bravest people I know live there in the whole world.”

But the Russian invaders cannot be repulsed with courage alone. “We need tanks, not ten, not twenty, but several hundred,” Andriy Yermak, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff, wrote on the Telegram short message service on Monday. And actually appreciate too NATO and the EU that Ukraine can only withstand a spring offensive by the Russians with additional weapons.

A dispute over the delivery of German Leopard tanks has raged for days. Combat vehicles developed during the Cold War could decisively strengthen Ukraine militarily.

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