TASS cites the German tabloid Bild reporting this morning that the German Defense Ministry believes that Kyiv will not be able to launch a counteroffensive. The ministry “does not believe that Ukraine will be able soon” to implement the counteroffensive, Bild said. At the same time, the Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr will no longer supply heavy matériel to Ukraine. “The transfer was completed,” the newspaper said, citing an internal document of the German Defense Ministry. Thus, no more Leopard 2 tanks will be supplied to Kyiv, although the German armed forces have about 300 such tanks, the newspaper said.
Bild further reports that Chancellor Olaf Scholz has “left unattended” Zelenskyy’s demands for permission to deliver strikes deep inside Russia and approve the expedited admission to NATO. The newspaper’s source also said that the decision of U.S. President Joe Biden to postpone the meeting on Ukraine in Ramstein because of the Hurricane Milton was just an excuse. According to Bild, the U.S. President simply does not want to speak about the conflict in Ukraine just before the presidential election.
