Germany to finally prepare more shipments: Germany to ship additional weapons to Ukraine after weeks of stalling – EURACTIV.com
This was almost a bit funny:On Wednesday, over a month after Rheinmetall provided its proposal, the defence ministry reportedly green-lighted the procurement of weaponry worth €300 million.
According to information obtained by Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German Federal Security Council will now deliberate the procurement, which consists of various equipment ranging from mortars and rocket launchers to protective vests and helmets.
What are they shipping, stone bricks!?More recently, the defence minister has been embroiled in a controversy surrounding her statement on Monday that Germany would be the “second-largest weapons supplier of Ukraine.”
The defence ministry later had to backpedal, with its spokesperson David Helmbold stating on Wednesday that Germany would only be the second-largest weapons supplier of Ukraine when it comes to the total weight, not the value, of the shipments.