April 21, 2022

The German government has decided to supply Ukraine with Soviet T-72 tanks through Slovenia. The agency reports DPA citing their sources.

The deal provides for the transfer of tanks by Slovenia in favor of Ukraine, and the FRG undertakes, in turn, to supply Slovenia with German Marder infantry fighting vehicles and Fuchs armored personnel carriers. In Berlin, they explain that the Ukrainian military does not need to be trained to use Soviet tanks, since they are in service with the army.

Sources of the publication noted that Slovenia, as compensation, wants to receive not only Fuchs and Marder, but also modern German Leopard 2 tanks, as well as Puma and Boxer armored personnel carriers.

Earlier, German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said that Germany would train the Ukrainian military to work with Type 2000 tank howitzers, which the Netherlands intend to supply to Kiev. At the same time, the minister noted that the country cannot supply heavy weapons from its stocks.

This week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that the reserves of the German armed forces in the matter of supplying weapons to Kiev are practically exhausted. He added that Ukraine might purchase weapons from German defense concerns.