Leaders of Europe's biggest countries are in Kyiv on a mission to smooth out tensions over what the Ukrainian government perceives as a lack of tangible support from their governments.
Not that they needed one.Like other leaders before them, they traveled to the Ukrainian capital on a special train that set off from Poland in the middle of the night and was guarded by dozens of heavily armed soldiers. The three were in Kyiv on a mission to try and smooth out tensions over what the Ukrainian government perceives as a lack of tangible support from their governments.
German officials have in the past said the delay in deliveries was partly down to the need to train Ukrainian soldiers on how to use the heavy weaponry and Scholz mentioned this again on Thursday. "We are currently training the Ukrainian military in state-of-the-art weapons, the self-propelled Howitzer 2000 and the Gepard anti-aircraft tank.
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