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Despite recent European pledges of missiles and artillery for Ukraine on ahead of a major donor meeting, the focus remains on Germany’s failure to authorise the export of German-built Leopard 2 tanks.

The German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is facing growing domestic and international pressure – particularly from the Polish government and the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – to allow the military aid.

Estonia’s foreign minister, Urmas Reinsalu, told Newsday why they could be pivotal to Ukraine’s war effort against new Russian attacks.

(Pic: Leopard tanks in Bratislava, delivered by Germany as part of a deal after Slovakia donated fighting vehicles to Ukraine. Credit: Reuters)