Switzerland has agreed to export 25 decommissioned Leopard 2 tanks back to Germany after months of diplomatic wrangling over whether such a step would challenge the country’s commitment to neutrality.
Receiving the Swiss-owned tanks will enable the German military to backfill a shortage in its own reserves created by its commitment to send urgently needed heavy armour to Ukraine.
The Swiss export authorisation is conditional on Berlin not sending the vehicles in question on to Kyiv — a legal formulation that finally broke an impasse that infuriated many of Switzerland’s neighbours and led to an increasingly public war of words.
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