Later, the country allowed a military manufacturer to send 29 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine. In January, Germany announced the delivery of 14 Leopard 2A6 tanks to Ukraine from Bundeswehr stocks.īerlin also approved European countries delivering Leopards to Ukraine to help it repel Russia’s invasion.
The purchase will be financed from the current budget and not from the 100-billion-euro special fund the government allocated in response to the war, Der Spiegel clarified. Germany has already sent 14 Panzerhaubitze 2000s to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. The purchase of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann howitzers is part of a defense ministry plan to purchase 28 of the mobile weapons. The purchase includes an option to buy an additional 105 Leopards for 2.9 billion euros ($3.11 billion). The German outlet added that deliveries are expected by 2026 at the latest. The German Parliament’s budget committee approved 525.6 million euros ($578.58 million) for the tanks and 190.7 million euros ($204 million) for the howitzers, Der Spiegel revealed, citing German finance ministry documents. Germany has approved the purchase of 18 Leopard 2A8 tanks and 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzers to replenish the stocks depleted due to deliveries to Ukraine.
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