German plans to send the first Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns

IGermany plans to send the first Gepard anti-aircraft self-propelled guns to Ukraine in July 2022.
This was announced by German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht to her Ukrainian counterpart Oleksii Reznikov, BILD reports.
It’s about a batch of 15 units from the reserves of the German defense industry.

According to DW, the aid package includes about 60,000 shells.
Previously, the German government reported a problem with the search for ammunition. Switzerland refused to supply shells, appealing to its neutrality. Brazil’s readiness to sell 300,000 rounds of ammunition was reported.

In an interview with German media, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba criticized Germany’s approach to organizing military assistance to Ukraine on the case of the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft guns:
“At first they said that they will provide them (Gepard guns). Then they say you get them if you have shells, because we don’t have any. Then you will have to request other countries for ammunition, although for various reasons it is doubtful that these countries will provide them. We first agree on what we did not ask for, and then we realize that the system cannot work at all, some questions arise.” Gepard is a 35 mm anti-aircraft self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, it is based on the chassis of the Leopard 1 main battle tank, created by Kraus-Maffei in the 1970s.