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Jun 8 • 2 tweets • 1 min read
It now turns out that Germany won’t send the M270 MLRs Scholz promised to Ukraine until much later than thought.

The Germans say the weapons system lacks a software update making it possible to fire American and British missiles.

The transfer “won’t happen before winter.”

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Source: Die Zeit (post written at 14:49)

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Jun 10
The heads of state of the B9 countries meet in Bucharest today.

The organization, focused on military co-op between 9 states on NATO’s eastern flank, was created after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (2014).

The B9 Summit will be dedicated to NATO’s new Strategic Concept.

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The summit will be hosted by the two presidents who launched the organization, Romania’s Klaus Iohannis and Poland’s Andrzej Duda.

The agenda of the summit aims to prepare the most important decisions of the next NATO summit, organized in Madrid, at the end of the month.

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The priority topics of the summit:

1. The consequences generated by Russia’s illegal military aggression against Ukraine
2. The need to strengthen the position of deterrence and defense on the Eastern Flank, in a unified manner, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea.

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May 29
BREAKING:

Poland has donated 18 of its most modern AHS Krab self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine.

Poland has also trained 100 Ukrainian artillerymen to operate these howitzers.

Following the 6 Caesar SPGs donated by France, Ukraine now has at least 24 Western SPGs.

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Germany and the Netherlands have promised to transfer a total of 12 Panzerhaubitze 2000, but Berlin explains that the training of crews to operate these SPGs is still underway.

The final date for when the Panzerhaubitze 2000 to be delivered to Ukraine is still not known.

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Source: Informacyjna Agencja Radiowa (Polish State Radio)

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May 29
Marko Mihkelson, Head of the Estonian Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has called Scholz and Macron “braindead” for making constant phone calls to Vladimir Putin.

"It is incredible how France & Germany are inadvertently paving the way for new acts of violence by Russia.”
“Macron and Scholz's 80-minute phone call with Putin today makes one paraphrase the former – is this not a case of being braindead, Mihkelson said.

Macron famously called the NATO alliance “braindead” a few years ago, in a statement that was viewed as undermining the alliance.
Mihkelson admitted that while his criticism of allies is sharp, efforts to legitimize the person who unleashed the war and is responsible for the crimes committed place allies everywhere at risk.

"How is it possible neither Paris nor Berlin have learned from history?”

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May 28
Four weeks ago, Germany agreed to send dozens of Gepard anti-aircraft guns to Ukraine in what it called a turning-point after earlier having refused to provide heavy weapons.

Berlin said it can deliver the first Gepards in July, but it now turns out there’s no ammunition.

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One reason for Germany's delay in sending the anti-aircraft guns was a lack of ammunition, industry sources and Ukraine's ambassador said – a fact that was well-known to Berlin when it first made the pledge.

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Germany no longer uses Gepards and has scant stocks of ammunition.

Supplying them to Ukraine "only makes sense when there is the ammunition to go with it - that was clear right from the start," a source said, speaking on condition of anonymity as the topic is sensitive.

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May 28
Polish President Duda accuses Germany of reneging on a promise to provide tanks to replace those Poland gave to Ukraine to support its defence against Russia.

“We had such a promise, but we now hear that Germany will not want to fulfil this promise. It is a big disappointment”.
In April, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the Polish government had asked Germany for a batch of Leopard 2 tanks to help replace the T-72s it had given to Ukraine. But the newspaper noted that Berlin had still not made a decision.

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Last week, Der Spiegel reported that talks on the issue were “deadlocked”, and that German defence minister Christine Lambrecht had privately admitted that there is no hope of an agreement with Warsaw.

The situation “is turning into an ugly argument”, wrote Der Spiegel.

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May 16
BREAKING:

European Commission, France and Germany all announced that European energy companies should be allowed to pay for gas in rubles at a closed meeting between EC representatives and EU diplomats in Brussels on late Friday evening.

Poland & the Netherlands were outraged.
Poland’s PM Mateusz Morawiecki says that he is disappointed by how the EU is handling the issue and says that Russia unilaterally cut Poland off from Russian gas in breech of the contract signed between the two.

Source: PAP (The Polish Press Agency)

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At the meeting, the French side went even further and said that European companies could open bank accounts in rubles in Russian banks without this being an act that goes against EU sanctions.
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