Ukraine's ambassador to Germany, Oleksiy Makeev, is sure that sooner or later Berlin will hand over Leopard 2 battle tanks to Kyiv.

He said this in an interview with "European Truth".

Makeyev noted that Ukraine has been raising the issue of supplying heavy armored vehicles since the first day of a full-scale war.

Now, according to the ambassador, the hope for the transfer of tanks is supported by work.

"In March, the president gave the task of bringing weapons to Ukraine. As a result, the Germans gave permission to send to Ukraine more than 60 BMP-1s, which belonged to Germany and were in the Czech Republic. At the time, we also mentioned the Leopards during the negotiations, i.e. it will soon be a year since Ukraine raised this issue," Makeev reminded.

He added that the German system is too screwed up and it is very difficult to change it.

"But what is happening now is what Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz called a 'Zeitenwende' - that is, a change of eras. Changes of eras do not happen overnight, but we are doing everything to accelerate such a change. And I am sure that the Leopards will. It is better that it happened as soon as possible, but I am sure that it will happen," the ambassador said.

He noted that earlier Germany refused to provide Ukraine with most of the equipment currently in service with the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including Panzerhaubitze 2000, Mars, IRIS-T air defense systems, Pumas and Marders.

"Then the answer was ``no,'' but now we see that a large number of items from this list are already supplied to us," Makeev said.