• Poland will send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine.
• If it can create a small coalition of governments.
• Transfer of the German-made tanks would typically require permission from Germany.

Poland will send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine if it is able to “create at least… a small coalition of governments” that would do the same, according to Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.

If that “condition” is met, Poland would be willing to transfer the German-made tanks with or without Berlin’s approval, Morawiecki told reporters. Any transfer of Leopard 2 tanks would typically require permission from Germany.

“We will apply for such consent, but this is a secondary topic,” Morawiecki said.

“Even if we do not get this consent in the end, as part of a small coalition – (and even if) the Germans were not in this coalition – we will still hand over our tanks, together with others, to Ukraine,” he added.

“The condition for us at the moment is to build at least such a small coalition of states and on this issue… we are contacting our partners in Western Europe.”

High-level diplomatic discussions on Ukraine’s repeated requests for more tanks have taken place in recent weeks, but Germany has so far rejected growing pressure to approve a tank transfer.

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