Chancellor Scholz has said several times that Germany will support Ukraine for as long as it is necessary - now it is known what the planned winter package for the soldiers there should look like.
According to a media report, the federal government wants to support Ukraine with military equipment for the winter. Part of the package are 100,000 warm under jackets and other winter clothing, 100 heatable team tents, hundreds of mobile power generators and pallets of food packages, as reported by "Spiegel". The financial outlay is therefore eleven million euros. Already at the beginning of September there had been reports about a planned winter package.
The magazine refers to corresponding requests from the Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Resnikov to NATO. In a letter to the Secretary General of the western military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, the Ukrainian asked for uniforms for 200,000 soldiers.
In addition, the pressure on the German government to deliver modern tanks to Ukraine has been growing for weeks. During a visit to Lithuania on Saturday, Federal Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht referred to the deliveries of Cheetah tanks and tanks of Soviet design in ring exchanges, for example via Greece and Slovakia.
Incidentally, she met Resnikov in Odessa last week, the SPD politician said. It had become clear "what is urgently needed in Ukraine at the moment and that is air defense systems." In the coming days, Germany will therefore deliver the first of four air defense systems.
