{"id":378803,"date":"2025-08-27T23:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378803\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:02:12","slug":"germany-exported-record-amount-of-arms-in-2024-most-went-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378803\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany exported record amount of arms in 2024, most went to Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Participants in a rally in support of Ukraine in Berlin. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the German government approved arms exports worth \u20ac12.83 billion, setting the country\u2019s record.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> German TV news service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tagesschau.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tagesschau<\/a>, as reported by European Pravda<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong> Thus, Germany exported more military equipment than ever before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine topped the list of recipients with \u20ac8.15 billion, according to an arms export report.<\/p>\n<p>The actual volume of weapons exports last year also reached a record level. Ukraine accounted for 64% of all approved arms exports.<\/p>\n<p>Among the deliveries to Ukraine were 306 armoured combat vehicles, 316 missiles and missile systems, 78 battle tanks and 11 large-calibre artillery systems.<\/p>\n<p>Other major orders came from Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">On 27 August, the German government approved a draft law on voluntary military service.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Germany&#8217;s Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and the country&#8217;s armed forces estimate that Russia views the West as a systemic enemy, is building up its military power and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pravda.com.ua\/eng\/news\/2025\/03\/28\/7505015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing for a large-scale confrontation with NATO<\/a>.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">The Bundestag has said that Russia could attack NATO in 2-3 years.<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Support Ukrainska Pravda on <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/pravdaua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Patreon<\/strong><\/a><strong>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Participants in a rally in support of Ukraine in Berlin. Photo: Getty Images In 2024, the German government&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-378803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany","11":"tag-weapons"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115103225967286543","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}