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The Czech leadership has sent a request to purchase German Leopard 2 tanks from Switzerland, said the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports of the Swiss Confederation Viola Amherd.
She clarified that such requests come not only from the Czech Republic, but also from Germany.
“We want to keep a certain reserve in order to be able to guarantee the security of our country. Also, there will be a number of tanks that we don’t need that can be provided if parliament decides to write them off,” she said on a local TV station.
Ceske Noviny reports that Switzerland has 230 Leopard 2 tanks, of which 134 are in service and 96 have been decommissioned. At the same time, they were not “put out of action”. Swiss law only allows the sale of end-of-life vehicles.
Earlier it became known that the head of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Oleksiy Reznikov, spoke out refuting rumors about his likely resignation. He told the media that he was not going to leave his post “until the victory”.
