Germany appoints defence chief in time for key Ukraine meeting

Boris Pistorius will lead efforts to modernise Germany’s army and steer policy on the war in Ukraine.

Germany has appointed a new defence minister as pressure mounts on Berlin to allow European nations to send German-made Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.

The government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday named Boris Pistorius as the defence chief to replace scandal-hit Christine Lambrecht, who resigned a day earlier.

Pistorius, from Scholz’s governing Social Democrat Party (SPD), will leave…