{"id":1931034,"date":"2023-05-15T05:42:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-promises-another-3b-in-military-aide-to-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-05-15T05:46:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T09:46:05","slug":"germany-promises-another-3b-in-military-aide-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-promises-another-3b-in-military-aide-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany pledges $3B more in military aid to Ukraine."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgermany-promises-another-3b-in-military-aide-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931034&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Germany to Provide Ukraine with Additional Military Aid Worth Over $3 Billion<\/h2>\n<h3>Preparations for Ukrainian President&#8217;s Visit to Germany<\/h3>\n<p>Germany has announced that it will provide Ukraine with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-sending-additional-military-aid-worth-275m-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"U.S. Sending Additional Military Aid Worth 5M to Ukraine\">additional military aid worth<\/a> more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion), including tanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meet-chinas-j-20-mighty-dragon-stealth-fighter-a-threat-to-the-us-air-force\/\" title=\"Meet China\u2019s J-20 Mighty Dragon Stealth Fighter: A Threat to the US Air Force?\">anti-aircraft systems<\/a>, and ammunition. The announcement came as preparations were underway in Berlin for a possible first visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia invaded his country last year.<\/p>\n<h3>Germany&#8217;s Support for Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Berlin wants to show with the latest package of arms \u201cthat Germany is serious in its support\u201d for Ukraine. \u201cGermany will provide all the help it can, as long as it takes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While Zelenskyy\u2019s visit on Sunday has yet to be officially confirmed, it would be a sign that relations between Ukraine and Germany have improved markedly after a rocky patch.<\/p>\n<h3>Germany&#8217;s Reliance on Russian Energy<\/h3>\n<p>Kyiv has long been suspicious of Germany\u2019s reliance on Russian energy and support for the Nord Stream gas pipelines circumventing Ukraine, defended by then Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her successor, Olaf Scholz, agreed to phase out Russian energy imports after the invasion but initially hesitated to provide Ukraine with lethal weapons, fearing Germany could be drawn into the conflict.<\/p>\n<h3>Germany&#8217;s Military Aid to Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>With Washington, Warsaw, and London more overtly supportive of Ukraine\u2019s efforts to defend itself, Berlin got the cold diplomatic shoulder from Kyiv. Though slow to provide military aid, Germany has since become one of the biggest suppliers of arms to Ukraine, crucially giving the green light for deliveries of modern battle tanks like its own Leopard 1 and 2, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/germany-promises-another-3b-in-military-aide-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"Germany pledges B more in military aid to Ukraine.\">sophisticated anti-aircraft systems needed<\/a> to fend off drone and missile attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The new military aid package, first reported by German weekly Der Spiegel, includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30 Leopard 1 A5 tanks<\/li>\n<li>20 Marder armored personnel carriers<\/li>\n<li>More than 100 combat vehicles<\/li>\n<li>18 self-propelled Howitzers<\/li>\n<li>200 reconnaissance drones<\/li>\n<li>4 IRIS-T SLM anti-aircraft systems<\/li>\n<li>Other air defense equipment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It comes after Ukrainian military commanders said their troops recaptured more territory from Russian forces near the eastern city of Bakhmut amid speculation about a possible counteroffensive by Kyiv.<\/p>\n<h3>Visit to Germany by Ukrainian President<\/h3>\n<p>The Ukrainian president would be arriving from Rome, where he was meeting Saturday with Pope Francis and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni. Berlin police confirmed last week that they are preparing for a possible visit by Zelensky and have imposed a security cordon throughout much of the capital\u2019s government district Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting Scholz and other senior officials at the chancellery, the two leaders are expected to fly to the western city of Aachen, where Zelensky would receive the International Charlemagne Prize awarded to him and the people of Ukraine. Organizers say the award recognizes that their resistance against Russia\u2019s invasion is a defense \u201cnot just of the sovereignty of their country and the life of its citizens, but also of Europe and European values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Zelensky last visited Berlin in July 2021. He also attended the Munich Security Conference the following February, days before Russia launched its full-scale attack on Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow Breitbart London on Facebook:\u00a0Breitbart London<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2013 Germany will provide Ukraine with additional military aid worth more than 2.7 billion euros ($3 billion), including tanks, anti-aircraft systems and ammunition, the government said Saturday. The announcement came as preparations were underway in Berlin for a possible first visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy since Russia invaded his country<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1931035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[26782,7629,3946,4505,5136,6991],"class_list":["post-1931034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-3b","tag-aid","tag-germany","tag-military","tag-pledges","tag-ukraine"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}