Tanks, but no ammo – Germany's Ukraine pledges show military muddle. BERLIN (Reuters) - Four weeks ago, Germany agreed to send dozens of anti-aircraft tanks to help defend Ukraine from Russia's invasion, part of what it called a turning-point after decades of military restraint. Berlin says it can deliver the first Gepard tanks in July. "For us, July is like, 'what?'" Anastasia Radina, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, told Reuters at the World Economic Forum. "Let me put it like this: Let's ask a mother who is forced to sit in a basement with her newborn child who has no baby formula. ... How far from now is July for her?" Gepard tanks fire a burst of 35 mm shots that form a cloud in the air to stop an incoming aircraft. Germany no longer uses them and has scant stocks of ammunition, which needs to be manufactured specially. Supplying the weapons to Ukraine "only makes sense when there is the ammunition to go with it - that was clear to everyone right from the start," an industry source told Reuters, speaking on condition of anonymity because the topic is sensitive. Asked to comment on the lack of ammunition, a defence ministry spokesperson said the government was giving support where support was possible. On May 20, Berlin said it had found ammunition and would send the tanks. Asked how it had found enough ammunition, the ministry did not respond. https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/worl...pc=U531&cvid=3331da154346450fa4230df604d758db
My God, this is my MP, and he has a thumping majority too. Never thought I'd be pleased to be represented by a Tory.
But he's so 'humbled' though, just like Emperor Gammon himself, Murdoch, when he was so 'genuinely humbled' after the Millie Dowler/Phone-Hacking Inquiry, then was rapidly laughing his socks off weeks later that he'd got away with it.