to prevail, ukraine needs more western weapons, in particular modern battle tanks. but germany remains reluctant to send in the leopards. well, my guest is ukraine s foreign minister, dmytro kuleba. are ukraine s strategic options being narrowed by wavering amongst western allies? foreign minister dmytro kuleba in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. it s my pleasure to be with you. it s great to have you back on the show. i m sure you watched very closely what happened in ramstein, germany, when ukraine s allies met at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplies to ukraine. what appears to have emerged is yet more uncertainty, particularly about whether you re going to get tanks. how damaging is that uncertainty? the meeting in ramstein itself was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m abso
an official request to the german government. now on bbc news, hardtalk s stephen sackur speaks to ukraine s foreign minister dmytro kuleba. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. in deep mid winter, ukraine is taking stock of wartime options. in the short run, kyiv is trying to repel relentless russian attacks around bakhmut in the east. but very soon, other more significant thrusts and counter thrusts are likely. to prevail, ukraine needs more western weapons, in particular modern battle tanks. but germany remains reluctant to send in the leopards. well, my guest is ukraine s foreign minister, dmytro kuleba. are ukraine s strategic options being narrowed by wavering amongst western allies? foreign minister dmytro kuleba in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. it s my pleasure to be with you. it s great to have you back on the show. i m sure you watched very closely what happened in ramstein, germany, when ukraine s allies met at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplie
to send in the leopards. well, my guest is ukraine s foreign minister, dmytro kuleba. are ukraine s strategic options being narrowed by wavering amongst western allies? foreign minister dmytro kuleba in kyiv, welcome to hardtalk. it s my pleasure to be with you. it s great to have you back on the show. i m sure you watched very closely what happened in ramstein, germany, when ukraine s allies met at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplies to ukraine. what appears to have emerged is yet more uncertainty, particularly about whether you re going to get tanks. how damaging is that uncertainty? the meeting in ramstein itself was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m absolutely confident about that because we continue our work. we hear more and more important messages coming from di
at defence minister level to discuss new weapons supplies to ukraine. what appears to have emerged is yet more uncertainty, particularly about whether you re going to get tanks. how damaging is that uncertainty? the meeting in ramstein itself was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m absolutely confident about that because we continue our work. we hear more and more important messages coming from different capitals, and i have no doubts that we will receive leopards. the only question is when, and now we are focused on making it happen rather sooner than later.
was the quintessential moment of weeks of different talks and negotiations and also public appeals, so everything that was not decided in ramstein, including main battle tanks, will be decided within a short term perspective. i m absolutely confident about that because we continue our work. we hear more and more important messages coming from different capitals, and i have no doubts that we will receive leopards. the only question is when, and now we are focused on making it happen rather sooner than later. but that is my very point, foreign minister. you in ukraine are trying to draw up a coherent strategy, military strategy, for the next few months. how can you do that when the german defence minister, pistorius, says after ramstein, we cannot say when a decision on sending the tanks will come and we cannot say what it