Germany has delivered promised Leopard battle tanks to Ukraine, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday, providing Kyiv with much-needed heavy weaponry against Russia. "The Spiegel report said Berlin had delivered 18 of the advanced Leopards, with the last of the tanks having left Germany at the end of last week, before being handed over to Ukraine at the border. "That also goes for the threat to put nuclear weapons in Belarus," he said, referring to plans announced by Putin to deploy tactical atomic bombs in Russia's ally Belarus