Germany Moves Forward with Tank Deliveries to Ukraine

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"To this end, the United States intends to supply Ukraine with Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicles, and Germany intends to provide Ukraine with Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles.”Equipment for a Ukrainian BattalionThe Chancellery and the White House did not provide details on the size of the delivery.Previously, Scholz had rejected Kyiv's requests for battle tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, arguing that no other Western country was supplying them.In an interview with DER SPIEGEL last April, Scholz suggested that tank deliveries from Germany could result in a broadening of the war.Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP)The junior coalition partners in Scholz's coalition government, the Greens and the business-friendly FDP, had repeatedly urged the chancellor in interviews and newspaper editorials to assist Ukraine with more heavy weapons."This decision by the U.S., France and Germany is absolutely right and was long awaited," said Green Party parliamentary group vice chair Agnieszka Brugger."

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