I'm David Nolz and this is Ukraine, the latest. Today, we discuss the news that the West

is poised to send nearly 200 battle tanks to Ukraine after German Chancellor Olaf Schultz

succumbed to weeks of international pressure. And we speak to our guests, Marich Kibbutchenko

and Stas Olenchenko, co-founders of Ukraine explainers. We talk about Ukrainian society,

language, and concepts of Russian guilt and responsibility.

Putin's war in Ukraine has destabilized energy markets the world over. Nobody is going to break us.

We're strong, we're Ukrainians. Every week day afternoon, we sit down with leading journalists

from the Telegraphs London newsroom and our teams reporting on the ground to bring you the latest

news and analysis on the war in Ukraine. It's Wednesday, the 25th of January, day 337,

and with me to discuss the most recent events in Ukraine and around the world, I'm joined by our

senior foreign correspondent Roland Olephant, our Brussels correspondent Joe Barnes and our guests,

Marich Kibbutchenko and Stas Olenchenko. I started by asking Joe to talk us through what

may be a key turning point in the war, as Germany releases the Lappards.

Yeah, I folks, I hope you get the email right. So yeah, it's a kind of monumental

kind of moment for Western supports in Ukraine. We've kind of overcome a huge hurdle,

which has kind of, we've been speaking a lot about it the last few weeks, but it's

existent for the last few months, really. In the fact of, can we give Western battle tanks,

main battle tanks to Ukraine? Ukraine have asked for notably the Lepid II, which is a German made

battle tank because, purely because logistics are better, they're easier to maintain,

they're just more of them around the world, mainly in Europe and in these kind of eastern countries.

But finally, after kind of months of hammering at the door, Olephant shots this morning,

the German Chancellor, was actually this afternoon, went into the Bundestag, the German Parliament,

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