Article 6830E Germany ‘would not stand in way’ of Poland sending tanks to Ukraine, says minister

Germany ‘would not stand in way’ of Poland sending tanks to Ukraine, says minister

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Daniel Boffey in Kyiv
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Annalena Baerbock makes clearest signal yet that European allies could deliver German-made hardware

Germany would not stand in the way" of Poland sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine, foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock, has said, in what appeared to be the clearest signal yet from Berlin that European allies could deliver the German-made hardware.

Asked in an interview with French television station LCI what would happen if Poland sent its Leopard 2 tanks without German approval, Baerbock replied through a translator: For the moment the question has not been asked, but if we were asked we would not stand in the way."

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