BEIJING, March 15 (Xinhua) According to Reuters, the German Bundestag Defense Commissioner said in an annual report on the 14th that Germany is now facing a more serious shortage of weapons and equipment than before the Ukraine crisis.
Eva Hoegl, defense commissioner for the German Bundestag, reportedly told reporters that the Bundeswehr was already stretched thin and had even fewer weapons since the Ukraine crisis erupted.
Hogel said that the German army has stepped up the delivery of weapons to Ukraine, but its own equipment also needs to be supplemented.
In 2022, the German government passed a so-called special fund totaling 100 billion euros to better equip the German army, but the appropriation progress of this special fund is very slow.
Hogel said: "The German supply of howitzers, various rocket launchers and Panther tanks to the Ukrainian side also opened a huge hole in our own weapons inventory."
She also called on the government to speed up the process of modernizing the barracks.
She described the current situation at the barracks as "disgraceful", with a lack of portable toilets, clean showers and Wi-Fi.
According to the list of countries and organizations that provide military aid to Ukraine from January 2022 to January 2023 released by the Kiel Institute for World Economics in February, Germany provided Ukraine with about 2.5 billion U.S. dollars (about 17.3 billion yuan). military aid.
The German Defense Minister also said on March 9 that a new batch of "Leopard 2" tanks will arrive in Ukraine this month.