When the war began, Germany became not only an important partner in terms of energy, financial support, and European integration – as had been traditionally perceived in Ukraine – but also an important partner to the country in terms of military support. Now Germany is in the top five suppliers of heavy weapons to Ukraine. Anyone following Ukrainian discourse – and for many in Germany this perhaps comes as a surprise – might even have gained the impression that Germany’s input is crucial for Ukraine’s victory in the war.
The New Europe Center talked to Gustav Gressel, a Senior Policy Fellow of the European Council on Foreign Relations (Berlin) about the importance of Germany’s military support to Ukraine, as well as policy behind it.
Will Germany finally supply tanks to Ukraine? Can any German weapons become game-changers in the war? Find more in the text of the expert talk, available at the link.
The Ukraine Expert Talks are part of the German-Ukrainian Researchers Network (GURN2) that is initiated by the Institut für Europäische Politik (Berlin). The aim of the project is to strengthen cooperation between German and Ukrainian think tanks as well as expertise in the field of policy analysis and to promote bilateral dialogue and knowledge transfer. GURN is conducted in cooperation with the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation (DIF, Kyiv), think twice UA (Kyiv) as well as the New Europe Center (NEC, Kyiv), and is kindly supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.
