In view of the escalation in the Ukraine crisis, the federal government is examining the delivery of further protective equipment and protective material to Kiev. There are intensive talks with the Ukrainian government about the delivery of night vision devices, said the chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Bundestag, Michael Roth (SPD). It is also conceivable that after the end of the Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan, protective material that is no longer required could be made available quickly and unbureaucratically.
The federal government has signaled that it wants to continue to supply protective equipment, Roth said, referring to the controversial delivery of 5,000 protective helmets requested by Kiev. The federal government has sent a clear signal that Germany wants to continue to take Ukraine’s need for protection into account by providing protective equipment in addition to previous deliveries.
“Everything that the federal government is able to provide should be delivered from our point of view,” said the SPD politician – with the exception of deadly weapons. There is great flexibility and openness in Germany, as the federal government underlined at the meeting.