Polish prime minister says key issue is to get military aid to Ukraine urgently
The UK defence secretary Ben Wallace, at the Ukraine military aid meeting in Tapa military camp, Estonia.The UK defence secretary Ben Wallace, at the Ukraine military aid meeting in Tapa military camp, Estonia.The Polish prime minister has said his country would be willing to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine without securing Germany’s approval if Berlin does not agree to their re-export at Friday’s meeting of western defence ministers at Ramstein airbase.
Lloyd Austin, the US defence secretary, met his newly appointed German counterpart, Boris Pistorius, in Berlin on Thursday, but neither mentioned the Leopard standoff in brief commentsbefore their meeting. Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said for the second time in two days there was little time to be wasted wrestling with decisions. Speaking by video link at a special event at the Davos gathering of the global elite, he said: “This is not a cinema where you wait for the film to start.”was to be defeated in a conventional war in Ukraine, it could lead to nuclear war.
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