Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper:

The Americans are just waiting for the Europeans to give their Leopard 2 to the Ukraine.

Because then they can offer their own tanks as a replacement.

Swiss Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper:

In the background, German industry sources claim U.S. offer used tanks from their own stock as a replacement and a long-term industrial partnership to any country that could supply Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

Any country that responds to the American offer is lost to the German tank industry.

And with every country that loses German industry, Berlin's political influence on its allies in NATO and the EU dwindles.

Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung:

U.S. Defence Secretary Austin said to have gotten into a heated argument with German Federal Minister for Special Affairs Wolfgang Schmidt during his visit to Berlin.

The encounter was "tense".

Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung:

The White House intervened in the German Chancellery with unusual sharpness.

Biden’s security adviser Jake Sullivan called Scholz's foreign policy adviser, Jens Plötner.

Sullivan read out the 'Riot Act'.

Germany’s Süddeutsche Zeitung:

The Anglo-Saxon phrase refers to an English law from 1715 in which King George I threatened “insurgents” with the death penalty.

In diplomatic language, the term is now used for a particularly harsh confrontation.

Anti-drone net not always works.

Old footage of Ukrainian 2S3 Akatsiya 152 mm Self-Propelled Howitzer hit by Russian Lancet kamikaze UAV.

Attacks on the roof wouldn't work, so the Russians either aim for the forefront or the rear.

Ukrainian HIMARS MLRS firing rockets against Russian targets.

Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani:

Italy and France are finishing preparation of the SAMP/T air defence system for transfer to Ukraine.

Ukraine Unity Day in Odesa.

Destruction of Russian ammunition warehouse in Zaporizhzhia direction.

Algerian MenaDefense:

Morocco sent an unknown number of T-72B tanks to Ukraine.

About 20 of them were sent to the Czech Republic for modernization last week.

The decision was taken back in April during a Ramstein meeting.

Russian Wagner PMC forces fire at Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopter with MANPADS in Bakhmut area on January 21.

Source claims it was shot down, but quality of the footage doesn’t allow identification.

The cover of the Polish Wprost magazine depicting German Chancellor Scholz delaying the transfer of Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

Cemetery of the fallen Ukrainian soldiers in Kherson.

Michael McCaul, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee:

Sending even one Abrams tank to Ukraine is enough for Europe to start deliveries of German Leopards to Kyiv.

French President Emmanuel Macron, answering a question about the possibility of Paris supplying Kyiv with Leclerc tanks, said "nothing is ruled out."

German Foreign Minister:

Germany will not stand in the way if Poland sends Leopard tanks to Ukraine.