“The delivery of Gepard anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine stalled eight days after Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht announced it.
By Tuesday, the federal government was unable to obtain suitable ammunition,” Welt reports, citing sources in the Kyiv authorities.
According to the publication, the supply problem arose due to the Swiss ban on re-exporting weapons to the war zone, namely in Switzerland, ammunition for Gepard is produced.
It is noted that 23,000 shells from Germany for 30 installations would be enough for only half an hour of firing.
On May 5, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier had a telephone conversation with Zelensky.
They discussed the refusal of the German politician to visit Kyiv in April.
After that, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz explained that Ukraine's refusal to visit the President of Germany is an obstacle to the chancellor's visit to Kyiv.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk then called Scholz "an offended liverwurst" and said that the chancellor was behaving "not very stately."