Christine Lambrecht: German defence minister resigns after blunders

Germany's Defence Minister Christine Lambrecht has resigned pursuing a bid of blunders and PR disasters.

It comes arsenic Berlin comes nether rising unit to let the transportation of German-built conflict tanks to Ukraine.

Ms Lambrecht was mocked for her announcement that Germany was supporting Ukraine by sending 5,000 subject helmets.

She was besides wide criticised for failing to amended Germany's notoriously ill-equipped equipped forces.

This was contempt the proviso of €100bn (£88bn) for that task pursuing Russia's penetration of Ukraine.

Ms Lambrecht, a subordinate of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD), besides came successful for disapproval erstwhile it emerged that she had taken her lad connected a travel successful a subject helicopter.

But it was an awkward video she posted connected New Year's Eve which triggered wide contempt and undermined her enactment wrong governmental circles. In the video, Ms Lambrecht talked astir the affirmative idiosyncratic encounters she had enjoyed during the warfare successful Ukraine, portion fireworks exploded astir her successful Berlin.

In a resignation connection seen by the German nationalist quality agency, Ms Lambrecht said: "Months of media absorption connected maine doesn't let for fact-based reporting and treatment astir soldiers, the service and information argumentation successful the involvement of German citizens.

"The invaluable enactment of the soldiers and galore motivated radical successful the defence country needs to beryllium successful the foreground."

Ms Lambrecht was owed to conscionable different defence ministers from Ukraine's occidental allies astatine the American subject basal successful Rammstein connected Friday to sermon further enactment for Ukraine.

The German authorities is facing renewed calls to o.k. the transportation of German-built Leopard 2 tanks.

It is not yet wide who volition win Ms Lambrecht successful a occupation which is considered specified a poisoned chalice that galore notation to it arsenic "the ejector seat".