The Bundeswehr does not possess heavy military equipment for transfer to the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).
The German Defence Ministry reported that it regards the possibilities of Ukraine to conduct another counter-offensive attempt in the near future as faded and has no plans to transfer new military equipment to the AFU in spite of the Bundeswehr’s possession of about 300 Leopard 2 tanks, according to Bild.
Once the Ukraine-Russia conflict began in February 2022, Berlin refrained from supplying heavy military equipment to Ukraine for some time, but Germany reconsidered its position in late April 2022. The AFU subsequently used German vehicles in a counter-offensive in the summer of 2023, but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky admitted its failure in the autumn of the same year.
Apart from, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced one of the latest aid packages to Ukraine on 11 October, according to the newspaper. The aid package would be allocated jointly with other countries such as Belgium, Denmark and Norway, with a total value of €1.4 billion worth of arms.
According to the chancellor, the package contains new air defence systems such as IRIS-T and Skynex, Gepard tanks, howitzers, anti-aircraft guns, attack drones, radar equipment and artillery shells.
Berlin is the second largest arms supplier to Ukraine after the United States. So far, the country has allocated funds for Kyiv’s military support and committed approximately €28 billion for future spending. In accordance with the 2025 budget agreement, Germany is set to allocate €4 billion for Ukraine’s military support, which is half the current year’s amount.
