Ukraine wants to create a brigade of Leopard 2 tanks, five countries are ready to hand over these tanks – Kuleba

Ukraine plans to create a tank brigade of German-made Leopard 2 tanks.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said this in an interview with journalist Vadym Karpiak.

According to him, five countries are now ready to hand over these tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reminded that Poland and Finland have already agreed to transfer tanks of this type to Ukraine.

According to the minister, Ukraine is “objectively half a step away from solving the issue of tanks.”

“The French landed the first, let’s say, blow at this wall with a light wheeled tank… The French are well done, they took the first step. Then the Poles… But the promise of Leopard tanks is the second such step.

He encouraged other countries, which until then were sitting quietly and whispering to us that they were ready to hand over the Leopard tanks, to come out and say: actually, we are also ready to do it,” Kuleba said.

The minister clarified that together with Poland and Finland, “we already have five countries that are ready to transfer [tanks], but are waiting for clearing the issues with Germany.”

“And I know at least three more countries that are ready to do it, but they are not talking about it yet, because they want to say it out loud, only if they are one hundred percent sure that the Germans will come out and say: we support it,” Kuleba said.

We should add that the head of the Office of the President of Poland, Paweł Szrot, stated that the international coalition in the matter of transferring tanks to Ukraine, in particular the Leopard 2 tanks, already exists, and Germany should join it.

“The coalition of allied countries, within the framework of which these measures should be implemented, is actually already functioning. Participation in this coalition was declared by, for example, Finland, Denmark, as well as Great Britain, which, of course, does not have Leopard tanks, but has its own Challenger tanks. Therefore, we can talk about a broad coalition, and German politicians should take this into account,” Szrot emphasized.

In turn, Polish government spokesman Piotr Müller said during a briefing in the Sejm that Warsaw is forming “the widest possible coalition” and expects Germany to join it.