In the summer, Germany secretly began to transfer a huge batch of military aid to Ukraine, including heavy armored vehicles.
This was reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to Merkur.
According to the publication, in late June and early July, Germany almost secretly and unnoticed sent Kyiv another huge military package for the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It included 39 tanks supplied by the German defense industry and the Bundeswehr.
Among other things, last week Ukraine received ten more Leopard 1A5 battle tanks and twenty Marder infantry fighting vehicles from Germany. This brings the total number of Marder tanks supplied by Germany for the war in Ukraine to 120, and the number of repaired Leopard 1s to 50.
In addition to ammunition for Leopard 1 and Marder, the Ukrainian army's arsenal has been supplemented with two Biber bridge-building tanks, two Dachs engineering tanks, two evacuation tanks and four Wisent 1 demining tanks.
Germany has also delivered another IRIS-T SLM air defense system (previously three) and another IRIS-T SLS air defense system (previously one) to protect critical infrastructure and cities from Russian air attacks.
Three HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems have also been added to the list of delivered weapons. The Bundeswehr does not have HIMARS in service, but has previously transferred four technically very similar multiple launch rocket systems to Ukraine.
Author - Dmitriy Levchenko, 15/07/2024