“As for the Leclerc tanks, it is not out of the issue,” President of France Emmanuel Macron said at a joint press convention with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Paris on January 22, an Ukrinform correspondent studies.

But, he included, the determination on the transfer of tanks should really be produced collectively on a few grounds: these types of provides need to not direct to further escalation, it ought to truly be a authentic efficient enable to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and ought to not weaken the armies of the nations around the world by themselves and NATO. Macron noted that it is essential to choose into account such details as schooling and logistics.

The President of France stated that the situation will be mentioned with the most crucial allies, mainly with Germany.

“We will have out the operate in the coming days and weeks,” he added.

Chancellor Scholz answered the dilemma about the German Leopard 2 tanks in the same vein about shut coordination while did not even make this sort of “promises” and did not point out the phrase “Leopard” in his response.

“Our two international locations do a whole lot to help Ukraine – monetarily, humanitarianly, but also with weapons. We will carry on, we have often intently agreed on the troubles … and this basic principle will keep on being,” Scholz claimed.

At the very same time, he famous that Germany continuously expands the list of weapons it delivers to Ukraine and normally coordinates it with its closest companions: this was the case with artillery, MLRS, infantry battling vehicles, air defense units, and so forth. All this machines is very economical.

Scholz also outlined the Elysée Treaty which was aimed at preventing a new war, “and it worked for the EU users.”

“That is why we are so outraged by the war that Russia has unleashed … We ought to respond to the aggression that has transpired … which include by supplying weapons,” Scholz explained.

He referred to as Russia’s solutions of waging war “a design of the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th generations.”

The Chancellor mentioned that he and President Macron usually spoke with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky but also with President Putin who was urged to finish the war in Ukraine and withdraw Russian troops from its territory.

In addition to the leaders, defense ministers Boris Pistorius and Sébastien Lecornu reviewed the subject matter of supporting Ukraine with weapons as portion of a joint assembly of the German-French Council of Ministers in Paris.

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