Germany said Friday it needed more time to decide whether to let its coveted Leopard 2 battle tanks be sent to Ukraine, putting off pleas from the government in Kyiv and disappointing U.S. and NATO allies eager to bolster Ukraine’s forces against a possible new Russian advance.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin rattled off a number of new military aid commitments emerging from a meeting of more than three dozen countries at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. But he acknowledged that the status of the Leopards — the big question mark coming into the meeting — was not resolved Friday.