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Germany's Defence Minister Boris Pistorius says he believes the EU member will manage to send a first battalion of tanks to war-torn Ukraine by April. "I think we could deliver at least one battalion in the first four months of this year. Three months maybe. And then we have to proceed as fast as possible of course," he tells reporters while on a visit to Warsaw. SOUNDBITE
President Vladimir Putin says that Russia is being threatened by German tanks "again" as it was during World War II, warning that Moscow is ready to respond to aggression from the West. Speaking on the 80th anniversary of the Red Army's victory over Nazi Germany in the Battle of Stalingrad, Putin compares the Third Reich's invasion of the USSR to Germany's supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine.
The German government has greenlit the shipment of "Leopard 2" tanks to Ukraine, according to reports in the German weekly Der Spiegel.
Germany's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock says Berlin would not 'stand in the way' of other countries supplying German-made tanks to Ukraine
Ukraine needs more weapons and more military hardware. The war-ravaged country's Western backers are to meet later this week in Germany to discuss ways to meet the country's needs in its fight against Russia.
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