Ukraine updates: Poland could send tanks without approval | DW News

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff has said Ukraine needs “several hundred“ tanks to push back Russian forces amid Berlin’s hesitancy over Leopard 2 deliveries. “We need tanks — not 10-20, but several hundred,“ Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram. “Our goal is [restoring] the borders of 1991 and punishing the enemy, who will pay for their crimes. Ukraine declared its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. Russia took over the Crimean Peninsula in 2014, and claimed to have annexed parts of the southern and eastern Ukraine in September 2022. Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has said Warsaw could send Kyiv Leopard 2 tanks without Germany’s permission. “We will ask for such permission, but this is an issue of secondary importance,“ Morawiecki said. “Even if we did not get this approval, we would still transfer our tanks together with others to Ukraine.“ “Even if Germany is not in this coalition, we will han