Germany changes its mind, allows for sending weapons to Ukraine

Germany has withdrawn a blockade on the transfer of lethal weapons owned by it to allow the sending of 400 rocket grenade launchers (RPG) from the Netherlands to Ukraine. According to David Herszenhorn from Politico, this could represent a major change in European military assistance to Ukraine. So far, Germany had a practice of [...]
According to David Herszenhorn from Politico, this could represent a major change in European military assistance to Ukraine.
So far, Germany had a long practice of not allowing lethal weapons controlled or sold initially to be sent to war zones.
Estonia had wanted to send weapons to Ukraine, but because Germany had sold them to Finland, from which Estonia had bought them, Germany had veto rights, reports Guardian,











