Which weapons Germany has delivered to Ukraine so far - and where Scholz is bluffing

Created: 04/21/2022Updated: 04/21/2022 10:55 am

The German government has supplied numerous arms to Ukraine.

However, Germany has so far failed to meet one of the country's key demands.

Munich/Kyiv - Since the beginning of the war*, the Ukraine has received a good 2,500 anti-aircraft missiles, 900 anti-tank rocket launchers with 3,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 machine guns and 15 bunker launchers with 50 rockets from Germany.

In addition, there are 100,000 hand grenades, 2,000 mines, around 5,300 explosive charges and more than 16 million rounds of ammunition of various calibers for handguns from assault rifles to heavy machine guns, as the

learned from Ukrainian government circles.

The list does not include heavy weapons such as tanks or artillery.

Two days after the Russian attack on Ukraine*, the federal government decided to deliver weapons to the war zone – breaking a taboo.

Initially, the federal government announced which weapons it was supplying, but not for a long time.

Members of the Bundestag can only obtain information about this from the secret protection agency.

The weapons mentioned in Ukrainian government circles have already arrived in the war zone.

The list also includes 1000 machine gun spare parts, 100,000 detonating cords and 250,000 igniters.

A Bundeswehr soldier being instructed on how to use a bazooka: 900 of these war weapons are said to have been delivered to Ukraine.

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Michael Kappeler

Weapons deliveries to Ukraine: Chancellor Scholz defends action

Chancellor Olaf Scholz * had explained how to proceed with the arms deliveries on Tuesday.

After that, the federal government no longer wants to deliver weapons from Bundeswehr stocks because it is of the opinion that the troops can then no longer fulfill their tasks in the defense of the country and the alliance.

Instead, the federal government wants to finance direct arms deliveries from industry to Ukraine.

The money pot for this is to be replenished from 225 million to two billion euros, as Scholz announced last week.

The delivery of weapons of Soviet design from Eastern European NATO countries to the Ukraine is also to be made possible via an exchange of rings.

Individual countries should receive replacements from Germany.

Weapons deliveries from Germany: Ambassador Melnyk is disappointed

According to information from the

on Thursday, the eastern NATO partner Slovakia is to hand over a large number of its T-72 main battle tanks to Ukraine and receive the “Marder” infantry fighting vehicle and the “Fuchs” wheeled armored vehicle from Germany in return.

Heavy weapons such as tanks, for example, which Ukraine has been demanding for several weeks, Germany still does not want to deliver.

The Ukrainian ambassador in Germany, Andriy Melnyk, then expressed his disappointment on

"The weapons we need are not on the list." country required.

On it, among other things, tanks of the type "Leopard" and "Marder"* as well as armored vehicles.

Weapons deliveries in the Ukraine conflict: tanks are not on the list

According to a report in the

newspaper, however, it is precisely these heavy weapons that have been removed from the industrial list.

In other words, from the list that Chancellor Scholz stated on Tuesday evening that it had been agreed with the Ukrainian government.

Other allies of Germany who want to send more modern equipment should be supported with ammunition and training.

For example, Germany wants to indirectly participate in the delivery of heavy artillery from the Netherlands* or the USA to Ukraine.

(dpa/fmü)