German Chancellor Scholz officially announces new military aid package for Ukraine

He wrote about this on Twitter. 

“Your visit to Berlin sends a strong message, 

Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia’s brutal war of aggression against your country has been raging for the last 444 days. We will provide you with humanitarian, political and financial support, as well as weapons, for as long as necessary,” he tweeted. 

Scholz also drew attention to the fact that Germany is providing a new military aid package worth EUR 2.7 billion, including further Leopard-1 battle tanks, Marder infantry fighting vehicles and Iris-T air defense systems.

• On May 14, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Berlin to meet with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Chancellor Olaf Scholz.