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context: “Also on Friday, Parliamentary Defence Committee chair Antti Häkkänen of the main opposition National Coalition Party (NCP) told MTV that Finland should provide Ukraine with German-made Leopard 2 battle tanks if other European countries decide to do so. Germany must approve any deployment of the tanks by other countries.” >
  
  If other countries keep pressuring Germany eventually they'll crack. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 72%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  Finland is preparing to send a new shipment of defence equipment to Ukraine, Defence Minister Mikko Savola said on Saturday.
  "Finland supports Ukraine. We are preparing the 12th aid package. Decisions will be made in the coming weeks. The content of the support is being prepared together with the Defence Forces, ensuring that we do not weaken our own defence capability," Savola wrote.
  On Friday evening, Savola told commercial broadcaster MTV that government and the Finnish Defence Forces were considering sending tanks to Ukraine.
  
  
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