KYIV: Germany faced a strong backlash from allies on Saturday (Jan 21) over its refusal to supply Ukraine with its vaunted Leopard tanks to bolster its fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with Russia. On Friday,
KYIV: Germany faced a strong backlash from allies on Saturday over its refusal to supply Ukraine with its vaunted Leopard tanks to bolster its fighting capacity in the nearly year-long war with Russia.
Several allies echoed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in saying the tanks were essential to Ukraine's fight with its much larger neighbour. But expectations had grown ahead of Friday's Ukraine Contact Group meeting of around 50 US-led countries that Germany would at least agree to let other countries operating Leopards transfer them to Kyiv's army.
In its daily report Saturday, Moscow's forces said they carried out"offensive operations" in the region and claimed to have"taken more advantageous lines and positions".In Kyiv on Saturday, Zelensky attended the funeral of his interior minister and other officials who were killed in aDenys Monastyrsky, one of Zelensky's top aides, became the highest-ranking Ukrainian official to die in the war that Russia launched on Feb 24, 2022.
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