Germany and U.S. agree to send combat vehicles to Ukraine

France’s decision to send light AMX-10 RC armoured combat vehicles to Ukraine prompted renewed calls from within German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition for Berlin to send more modern fighting vehicles to help Kyiv in the war against Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday urged Western allies to provide his army with tanks and heavy weapons to combat the Russian forces.
He thanked France for the AMX-10 RC vehicles, saying other allies should take that as a signal and that “there is no rational reason why Ukraine has not yet been supplied with Western tanks”.
Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, the head of the parliamentary defence committee and a member of Scholz’s junior coalition partner Free Democrats (FDP), called on Berlin to send Marder infantry fighting vehicles and train Ukrainians to use them.