EurActivEurActiv) — Ukraine’s Western allies who can deliver battle tanks to Ukraine should do so right away, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Friday (17 February), cementing Berlin’s recent U-turn on the issue, but dampened Kyiv’s hopes for fighter jets or long-range missiles. At their Wales summit in 2014, NATO leaders had agreed to move towards spending at least 2% of GDP on defence within a decade, as a reaction to what the alliance perceived as a severely deteriorated security situation in Europe, months after Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula. Required fields are marked *here to have Eurasia Review’s newsletter delivered via RSS, as an email newsletter, via mobile or on your personal news page