A German politician announced on Twitter that Ukraine would never receive Tornado fighter jets, which are scheduled to be decommissioned in the near future. Andriy Melnyk previously tweeted a “creative proposal” addressed to Germany: “Why don’t you send those tornadoes to Ukraine?”
On Sunday, January 15, a German politician named Gauke Schulz announced on Twitter that Ukraine would never receive Tornado fighter jets, which are scheduled to be decommissioned in the near future. His remarks were in response to the demand made by Andriy Melnyk, who serves as the Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine, that the country is supplied with 93 Tornado fighters.

Melnyk previously tweeted a “creative proposal” addressed to Germany: “The Bundeswehr has 93 Tornado multirole fighter jets that will soon be retired and replaced by F-35s,” Ukraine’s current Deputy Foreign Minister wrote on Twitter. “It’s an old jet fighter, but still very powerful. Why don’t you send those tornadoes to Ukraine, @Bundeskanzler?” He linked Olaf Scholz’s official account.
“You will never get a Tornado. They protect us in Germany and will not lead us to ωαя with Russia,” Schultz said.

The German politician said that members of his entourage who work with these specific types of fighters are opposed to Kyiv’s illegal seizing of this equipment.

At the same time, another German politician is in favour of the proposal. The CDU foreign politician Roderich Kiesewetter tweets that Tornado multirole combat aircraft from German stocks are to be delivered to Ukraine. He made the request in direct response to a similar request from former Ukrainian ambassador Andriy Melnyk. “Yes,” Kiesewetter wrote to Melnyk, “we should deliver the tornado!” And further: “Everything that contributes to the victory of Ukraine. Everything that we would also use in NATO. Even with that, we will not become a ωαя party.”

German is a part of NATO’s Nuclear Sharing Tactical Bombs Program, and the nuclear bombs are delivered by Tornado IDS strike aircraft from the German elite 33rd Squadron JaBoG (Jagdbombergeschwader 33) headquartered at Büchel in Rhineland-Palatinate. JaBoG has 46 Tornados. However, they will reach the end of their service life between 2025 and 2030.