is pressing a sense of urgency. there is a need for support to ukraine, to enable them not only to survive, but actually, to retake territory to win this war. but there is a lot of talk of course about a russian spring offensive. but do you think ukraine can take back territory this year? absolutely, and that s the reason why nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. frontline ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. constance stelzenmuller is the director of the center on the us and europe of the brookings institution. i asked her what the advantages are for ukraine in receiving tanks
to ukraine, to enable them not only to survive but actually to retake territory to win this war. but there is a lot of talk about a russian spring offensive. do you think ukraine can take back territory this year? absolutely. that s the reason why nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. front line ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. so to what extent have western countries committed to backing ukraine in the war? our diplomatic correspondent james landale explains. western powers have given ukraine different weapons at different times, depending on what was needed. at the start, portable anti tank weapons like these nlaws were crucial in helping ukraine resist the russian invasion.
but there is a lot of talk about a russian spring offensive. but do you think ukraine can take back territory this year? absolutely, and that s the reason why nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. frontline ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. constance stelzenmuller is the director of the center on the us and europe of the brookings institution. i asked her what the advantages are for ukraine in receiving tanks from germany. it is really about two things. getting tanks from germany and germany lifting its veto against other countries in europe, a dozen of them, who own the german tanks
the nato military alliance is pressing a sense of urgency. there is a need for support to ukraine, to enable them not only to survive but actually to retake territory to win this war. but there is a lot of talk about a russian spring offensive. do you think ukraine can take back territory this year? absolutely. that s the reason why nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. front line ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. we can now speak to constanze stelzenmuller who is a senior fellow at the brookings institution and an expert on german foreign and security policy. thank you forjoining us here on bbc. could you please put
are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. frontline ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. well, earlier i spoke to michael o hanlon who is a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the brookings institution. i asked him why america doesn t just send its own tanks to ukraine instead of relying on germany. i think we should. i think we re getting caught up in technicalities of what the tank can do, it is hard to maintain and it basically runs offjet fuel and requires different logistic infrastructure but i think we re getting too many of our green eye shades on and thinking about this in a kind