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Robertson, reporting from london. >> 500 and $90 million of military aid. that is the latest tranche of military support that the eu is giving to ukraine. well, of that $590 million that the u.s. sent to ukraine in terms of military support, $48 million of it, that is going to be for military training. the rest for hardware. the total that the eu has committed across all areas so far in total, subordinate for ukraine, that is now 53 billion dollars. on the backs issue of whether or not germany o...

Made soon on whether or not they will be able to send their own leopard 2 battle tanks or allow others to do so. they said theyre very confident a decision will be made soon. all sides are working towards making this happen. the other new piece of information that we got a couple of seconds before we went to air, christine, is that the polish defense minister, he came out a couple of minutes ago and said the poles had filed an official request to be giving them to ukraine. germany makes them and...

Spotify has never posted a full—year profit and is the latest technology firm to announce job cuts. european union foreign ministers have agreed to allocate another 500 million euros for military aid to help ukraine. but theres increasing pressure for more help with military tanks from germany. poland says its will make an official request to the german government. sofia bettiza has the latest. strong words from the german foreign minister in brussels on monday. translation: if it loses this w...

To announce job cuts. european union foreign ministers agreed on monday to allocate another 500 million euros for military aid for ukraine. but germany is coming under increasing pressure to allow its leopard 2 tanks to be used to help ukraine win the war against russia. poland says it will make an official request to the government in berlin for the permission it needs to send a number of its supply. sofia bettiza has the latest. strong words from the german foreign minister in brussels on mond...

After weeks of back-and-forth amongst nato allies, ukrainian leaders say they believe they are one step closer to acquiring german made leopard tanks. you transform esther says a deal is in the final stages, although it is not clear which country or countries would provide them. poland appears to be the leading contender, the foreign minister says war size determined to provide the tanks. the countrys prime minister is looking further for other nato countries to go along. >> with regard to leopo...

Foreign affairs minister had already said before. germany ministers have said that germany is not blocking other countries from doing this. other countries which which is to export their tanks can do so. so germany is not blocking exports of leopard tanks. >> germanys defense minister says they will take a decision soon about whether or not they will deploy their own leopard 2 tanks to ukraine. germanys foreign minister has said that if poland requests to send their own leopard 2 tanks to ukrain...

Ukraine dismissed the governors of five battlefield provinces and an array of other senior officials on Tuesday in the biggest shakeup of its wartime leadership since Russia's invasion last year. Separately on Tuesday, a long-awaited decision on whether allies could send German-made heavy tanks to Ukraine finally reached Berlin, after Poland said it had formally sent its request.

Partners, do everything we can to support ukraine in its right to defend itself. but she declined to comment on the most contentious issue, whether berlin would agree to the sending of german—made leopard 2 battle tanks to fight russian forces. they are world—class weapons, widely seen as the best fit for ukraine. but the germans have to give approval before the european allies can export them and germany is concerned about the possible consequences, including triggering escalation from russ...

Of nations. . germany builds the leopard 2 tanks, and our friends at cnbc are reporting that the polish defense minister said this morning that germany has received polands official request to re-export leopard 2 to ukraine. joining us now, senior correspondent for yahoo news michael weiss, you follow this as closely as anyone, including some of germanys reluctance, what do you think the time line is for the tanks to reach ukraine? >> germanys defense minister said that training on the leopard 2...

Sending fighter jets in. the west view, not the right weapon for this time, requires too much support, ukraine wanting the weapons systems. and there are a lot of similarities between that and these tanks now. lets talk about why specifically. leopard tank, leopard 2s, they have some advantages. one is they use nato standard ammunition. 120 millimeters, which makes it a lot easier for nato allies to provide that ammunition. they have more than the soviet made stuff that go to the tanks that ukra...