7 people who are super happy that Germany is supplying "Marder" tanks to Ukraine
Created: 01/06/2023, 11:35 am
By: Jana Stäbener
Germany promises Ukraine "Marder" armored personnel carriers and a Patriot anti-aircraft system.
Twitter users therefore celebrate the marten as "animal of the day".
The delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine has been discussed time and again in Europe and the USA in the past year.
In Germany in particular, politicians were arguing about whether or not to supply heavy weapons.
The German-Ukrainian and Green Party politician Marina Weisband has long been demanding the delivery of heavy weapons because "Ukraine must win," she says.
In June 2022, according to information from the
German Press Agency (dpa)
, Germany then delivered seven tank howitzers, heavy artillery pieces that can hit targets 40 kilometers away.
The first Gepard anti-aircraft tanks followed in July.
For a long time, Germany did not want to supply infantry fighting vehicles that could be used to attack Russia directly.
At least until now, because in a telephone call on Thursday evening, January 5, 2023, Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and US President Joe Biden agreed to supply Ukraine with armored personnel carriers from Germany and the USA.
French President Emmanuel Macron had promised the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, a day earlier, heavily armed reconnaissance tanks.
"Marder" for Ukraine: Germany supplies infantry fighting vehicles and Patriot anti-aircraft systems
It seems that the German government was under pressure because France and the US had promised to supply Ukraine with tanks.
For a long time, Olaf Scholz took the position that Germany does not deliver because the others do not deliver either.
Arguments against arms deliveries kept coming, especially from the left, which is why Fellinger, who was born in Ukraine, was appalled by her own party.
That is history now: Ukraine is now to receive several dozen “Marder” armored personnel carriers and a Patriot anti-aircraft system from Germany.
The US sends Bradley tanks.
Both countries will also train Ukrainian armed forces on the tanks - according to
dpa
a clear change of course, for which President Volodymyr Zelenskyj and Ambassador Oleksii Makeiev express their heartfelt thanks.
Many are also celebrating this decision on Twitter.
“Finally Marder for Ukraine!
About time," writes one person.
The "marten" becomes a symbol for the infantry fighting vehicle and a cute ball of fur with beady eyes and a white belly can be seen in the tweets on the social media platform Twitter.
"The animal of the day" writes a user to a photo that shows a small animal marten.
Here are seven people who are “beastly” happy in the truest sense of the word that Ukraine is now getting “Marder” tanks from Germany.
1. "Finally!"
2. The marten: "the animal of the day"
3. Some are happy, but criticize the "unwillingness of the Federal Chancellor to assume responsibility and leadership".
4. "German Marders finally on their way to cripple Russian engines."
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5. The CDU defense politician Serap Güler thanks Macron instead of Scholz.
He had already promised Selenskyj heavily armed reconnaissance tanks on Wednesday.
6. "The Russians are getting a problem with marten bites"
7. This journalist describes the more stable Berlin-Washington axis as "nice for the moment, risky in the medium term" compared to Berlin-Paris, which becomes visible in the decision to deliver "Marder" tanks.
