Germany will hand over infantry fighting vehicles (BMPs) to Greece in exchange for handing over Soviet-style weapons to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said.
This was reported by Reuters.
"We will provide Greece with German infantry fighting vehicles," he told reporters after a two-day EU summit in Brussels, adding that he had reached an agreement with the Greek prime minister. He promised that the Ministries of Defense of both countries will quickly agree on all the details and implement these agreements.
Scholz did not say which BMPs Berlin would hand over to Greece and which weapons Athens would hand over to Kyiv. However, before that, he stated that Germany supports countries that transfer their Soviet-style equipment to the Armed Forces.
- On May 19, Olaf Scholz proposed the creation of a solidarity fund for Ukraineʼs postwar reconstruction.
- Yesterday, May 30, it became known that Germany will change its constitution to create a special defense fund of € 100 billion. The project arose after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. According to him, in two years, Germanyʼs defense budget will grow by € 50 billion. This will allow the country to meet NATOʼs target of spending 2% of its GDP annually on defense.