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Brazil will not supply ammunition for the Leopard tanks that Germany recently promised to provide to Ukraine, the Latin American country's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said after meeting Monday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz

Olaf Scholz is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party (GSDP).

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In addition, Brazil will not supply ammunition for Cheetah self-propelled anti-aircraft guns (SAWS), which Berlin has already sent to Kyiv.

"Brazil has no interest in providing ammunition to be used in the war between Ukraine and Russia," Lula said at a joint news conference with Scholz, who arrived Sunday in Brazil, the last stop on the chancellor's four-day tour of South America.

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So far, Germany has delivered 30 Cheetah anti-tank missiles to Ukraine and has promised more.

Ammunition for them, however, is few.

Although the German company Rheinmetall is currently working on organizing the production of such ammunition, it is not expected to begin before June.

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