Germany not intend to send fighter jets to Ukraine: Scholz

• Berlin would not send ground troops into Ukraine.
• Olaf Scholz has stated that he does not intend to send fighter jets to Ukraine.
• erman leaders announced that they would send tank contingents to Ukraine.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated that he does not intend to send fighter jets to Ukraine.

“The question of combat aircraft does not come up at all,” he said in an interview with German newspaper Tagesspiegel on Sunday.

Scholz cautioned against “getting into a constant competition to outbid each other on weapons systems.”

It comes after US and German leaders announced on Wednesday that they would send tank contingents to Ukraine.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that Berlin would not send ground troops into Ukraine, and that debates over weapons deliveries “should not be conducted for reasons of domestic political profiling.”

“It is important to me now that all those who have announced their intention to supply battle tanks to Ukraine do so,” Scholz said.

“[Ukrainian] President [Volodymyr] Zelensky has repeatedly underscored his willingness to make peace and presented a peace plan in November. It is up to [Russian President Vladimir] Putin to withdraw troops from Ukraine and end this terrible irrational war that which has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives,” he said.

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