“According to Spiegel, the Federal Security Council approved the delivery (to Ukraine. -
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) of 178 Leopard 1 tanks,” the publication said.
On January 25, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said that Germany would issue permission to other countries to re-export German Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.
Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev said that Germany is determined to permanently escalate the conflict in Ukraine and pump weapons into the Kyiv regime.