Germany will not provide Ukraine with military aid in the near future because according to the federal government's current budget planning there is no money for it at the moment, but already approved military aid will be delivered, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Saturday, following discussions in several chambers of the federal government and in parliament.

The reason for this is austerity measures by the Chancellery and the Finance Ministry, the publication said, adding that assistance that has already been approved is still being delivered, but additional requests from the Defense Ministry no longer have to be approved at the request of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Finance Minister Christian Lindner conveyed such a request in a letter to Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on August 5.

As reported, on August 16, Head of the German Bundestag Defense Committee Marcus Faber said that Germany could transfer Fuchs armored transport vehicles and Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

"At the moment, we have given away 5% of our Leopard-2s and 0% of our Fuchs. We can do more – especially since we have ordered 123 Leopard-2s and are facing a decision on the Fuchs. Our assistance is crucial in the fight against Putin's aggressive war," he said on the X Social Network.

Earlier, Germany transferred another package of military aid to Ukraine, which includes the Patriot air defense system, interceptors, artillery shells, drones, military engineering vehicles and other equipment. The German government also allocated EUR 10 million for the restoration of the Okhmatdyt children's hospital, damaged as a result of the Russian attack on July 8.