Behind the scenes of a tank battle. The Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland reproached the Germans, and they offered us old rubbish?

To clarify the behind-the-scenes dispute over tanks, the authors of the text describe the events of April 12th. It was then that three important deputies entered Warsaw on their way to Kyiv - the chairmen of the committees of the Bundestag. According to FAZ, these were the head of the defense committee, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP), the head of the European affairs committee, Anton Hofreiter, from the Greens, and the head of the foreign affairs committee, Michael Roth (SPD). All three met with the Polish deputies at breakfast. According to the German newspaper, they were also joined by Deputy Foreign Minister Shimon Shinkovsky, also known as Senk.

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According to FAZ, the Polish deputy foreign minister is considered a “tough player” and had a “hard start” as German MPs. He let them know he didn’t like the fact that Germany was delaying aid to war-torn Ukraine. According to the newspaper, an exchange of arguments was to take place between our minister and former Deputy Foreign Minister Michael Roth, who knows Shimon Shinkovsky well, nicknamed Senk. The behavior of our minister should have touched the conscience of the German politicians who offered the Poles compensation for the assistance provided to Ukraine in the form of tanks.

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Did the Germans want to return to us the old equipment that no one uses?

However, when, in the course of subsequent negotiations, the Poles learned what equipment the Germans wanted from us, the enthusiasm subsided. According to FAZ, it was about 100 Leopard 1 A5 tanks - a model of the 1960s, modernized in the 1980s. This is an old technique that no one uses anymore. The head of the Ministry of National Defense Mariusz Blaszczak did not hide his disappointment with the first proposal of our neighbors. In a letter sent on July 29 to her German colleague, Christine Lambrecht pointed out that the Leopards 1 A5 proposed by the Germans in some cases were “technically older and had less combat value than those that Poland provided to Ukraine, moreover, without the necessary ammunition. “.

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Only later did the Germans agree to offer a newer technique - 20 Leopard 2 A4. However, deliveries of combat vehicles were to begin no earlier than April 2023. This proposal, wrote Minister Blaszczak, “did not live up to expectations given the conditions.” The case of German tanks stalled, and soon after that, the Poles announced an agreement with the Koreans on the supply of military equipment.

(Source: FAZ, MON.gov.pl)

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