Cheetah anti-aircraft tank
After the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Germany has been criticized by its European allies for its delay in providing substantive assistance to Ukraine in terms of weapons. It took a few days to cut 50 Cheetah anti-aircraft tanks from the decommissioned arsenal, but because the German arms dealer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann currently had only 23,000 in stock, the aid program was nearly stillborn because its shells were supplied by Switzerland and Switzerland opposed.
German media outlet Business Insider quoted German officials as saying Brazil would provide 300,000 cheetah shells. Germany produced Cheetah anti-aircraft tanks in the 1970s and will decommission them all in 2010, while the Brazilian army bought those tanks.
But The Russian satellite news agency Sputnik immediately issued a news release saying that the Brazilian army said it had not held talks with the German government, refuting the claim.
Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Andriy Yaroslavovych Melnyk, reportedly said that a chariot without ammunition would not help Ukraine and that Ukraine would have to reject a German offer if Germany did not buy ammunition.