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Bundestag confirms supplying Ukraine with Marder armoured fighting vehicles

Germany does not believe that this could lead to any escalation.

Bundestag confirms supplying Ukraine with Marder armoured fighting vehicles
Marder fighting vehicle
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Head of the Bundestag Defence Committee Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann confirmed that Germany would provide Ukraine with Marder infantry fighting vehicles. She added that the delivery of Leopard tanks should follow. 

"What we can do, we must do," she said. 

Strak-Zimmermann added that the allocation of weapons by Germany is not an escalation: "There is only one escalation. It happened on 24 February - the Russian attack on Ukraine, killing of civilians, rape of women, disappearance of children, torture".

Yesterday, German media reported that Germany is considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with Marder infantry fighting vehicles, which have long been requested by the Ukrainian authorities. According to the British newspaper The Guardian, they may be delivered by March. 

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