Trump warns against further arms deliveries to Ukraine

Former US President Donald Trump has warned against further arms sales to Ukraine because of an impending nuclear war. Trump wrote on Truth Social: First tanks, then nuclear weapons. Stop this crazy war immediately. It's easy to do. Negotiations about a peaceful end to the Ukraine war are needed. Otherwise the situation could end in a third world war, he wrote there.

Trump had previously said that had he continued as President of the United States, the war in Ukraine would not have started. After initial resistance, the German government has now decided to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine. The federal government has decided to provide the Ukrainian armed forces with Leopard 2 main battle tanks. This is the result of intensive consultations that took place with Germany's closest European and international partners, announced Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Meanwhile, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius informed his Polish counterpart Mariusz Blaszczak about the details of the German delivery of Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine. Sahra Wagenknecht, the former parliamentary group leader of the Left Party in the Bundestag, sharply criticized the federal government's decision to deliver Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. "I think that's extremely dangerous and I'm worried that decisions like this will escalate this war more and more.