German chancellor says he won't send fighter jets to Ukraine

The German chancellor has ruled retired sending combatant jets to Ukraine, conscionable days aft committing to supplying tanks.

In an interrogation with a German newspaper, Olaf Scholz warned against a bidding warfare for weapons.

But Ukraine has asked allied nations to make a "fighter pitchy coalition" to bolster their capabilities.

The US said it would sermon the thought of supplying jets "very carefully" with Kyiv connected Thursday.

In an interrogation with Tagesspiegel, Mr Scholz said his absorption was connected the transportation of German-made Leopard 2 tanks.

"The information we've lone conscionable made a determination [on sending tanks] and the adjacent statement is firing up successful Germany, that conscionable seems frivolous", helium said.

On Wednesday Germany committed to supplying 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine, aft weeks of unit from allies.

Following Germany's committedness to nonstop the tanks, the US said it would supply Ukraine with its M1 Abrams tanks.

Ukraine's lawman overseas minister, Andrii Melnyk, has called for the instauration of a "fighter pitchy coalition" that would supply Ukraine with US F-16s and F-35s, Eurofighters, Tornados, French Rafales and Swedish Gripen jets.

Ukrainian statesmanlike advisor Mykhailo Podolyak told Ukraine's Freedom Television Network they besides needed missiles "to drastically trim the Russian army's cardinal weapon".

And Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky echoed that successful a regular video code wherever helium said the state needed the US-made ATACMS missile, which has a scope of 185 miles (297km).

He said the missiles would assistance Ukraine expect Russian attacks connected municipality areas and civilians.

Washington has truthful acold refused to supply that weapon.

In the Tagesspiegel interview, Mr Scholz reiterated that Nato was not astatine warfare with Russia, "we volition not let specified an escalation," helium said.

He confirmed that helium speaks regularly to Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, with the astir caller telephone betwixt the 2 successful December 2022.

"We request to speech to each other," helium said, but added that helium was ever wide that Russia's penetration of Ukraine was perfectly unacceptable and lone the withdrawal of its troops would resoluteness the situation.