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Some of those arms were transferred from Western military stocks to Ukraine, while in other cases Kyiv has purchased equipment with its own money or funds provided by allies. But there are concerns particularly over the, straining the capacity of Western defense companies to keep both the Ukrainian military and their own resupplied.
“That means we have to be clearly told which products are needed within which time,” said Hans Christoph Atzpodien, managing director of the Federation of German Security and Defense Industries.The association's members, which include major arms manufacturers such as Rheinmetall, can further boost production, such as by reactivating mothballed facilities and machines, and hiring more staff, he said.
This is why skepticism about this grows. Germany is the NATO power who should feel the most threatened by Russia but they have sat on their hands for a year and now are seeking clarity. Russia has shown itself as weak and this is ostensibly a war between rival crime bosses.