German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will deliver today the most high profile speeches at this year's Davos forum.
Zelenskyy is readying for a second year of war against the invading Russian forces. Ukraine has made major battlefield gains, but heavy battle tanks are considered vital to recapturing Russian-occupied territories.
So far, however, Ukraine has received only Soviet-made tanks that were in the inventory of Eastern European NATO countries. Berlin has so far refused to send the sophisticated German-made Leopard 2 tanks, despite a growing chorus of appeals from Kyiv and NATO allies.
Scholz's government had cited the fact that other allies have not handed over modern tanks to Ukraine either. But that position is now on shaky ground after Britain and Poland recently announced they would deliver heavy battle tanks and an earlier pledge by France to send "light" tanks.

A helicopter crashed into a building in the city of Brovary, outside the Ukrainian capital on Monday morning, killing the Interior Minister Denys Monastyrskyy, his deputy and a state secretary who were said to be headed to the front line on a visit.
According to Ukrainian police, 16 people were killed in the crash, including three children. Nine of them were on board.
Twenty nine victims of the accident were injured, 15 of them are children, Kyiv regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on Telegram.
Earlier, Oleksiy Kuleba said, "In Brovary a helicopter has crashed next to a nursery and residential building."
"Children and the employees of the kindergarten were there at the moment of the tragedy," he said, adding that they have since been evacuated.
Officials gave no immediate account of the cause of the crash, though as an investigation is underway.

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