Poland will send Leopard tanks to Kyiv if a "small coalition" of countries agrees to do the same
From CNN
The Polish government will send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine if it manages to “build at least... a small coalition of states” who would do the same, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
If that “condition” is met, Poland would be willing to transfer the German-made tanks with or without Berlin’s approval, Morawiecki told reporters. Any transfer of Leopard 2 tanks would typically require permission from Germany.
“We will apply for such consent, but this is a secondary topic,” Morawiecki said.
“Even if we do not get this consent in the end, as part of a small coalition – (and even if) the Germans were not in this coalition – we will still hand over our tanks, together with others, to Ukraine," he added.
"The condition for us at the moment is to build at least such a small coalition of states and on this issue... we are contacting our partners in Western Europe.”
Ukraine's repeated calls for more tanks have been the subject of high-level diplomatic talks in recent weeks, and Germany has so far resisted the increasing pressure to authorize a tank transfer.
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