The arrival of the first howitzer Germany promised to provide to Ukraine

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said on Tuesday that German self-propelled howitzers had arrived in Ukraine in the first shipment of heavy weapons promised by Berlin.

Ukraine has appealed to the West to send in more and better cannons after its current Soviet-era arsenal has run out of ammunition, which is dwarfed by the Russian arsenal.

“We have filled the shortfall,” Reznikov said on social media. “The German Panzerhaupz 2000, along with trained Ukrainian crews, joined the Ukrainian artillery.”

The Panzerhausen 2000 cannons are one of the most powerful artillery weapons in the German army’s stocks and can hit targets up to 40 km away.

Germany pledged in May to supply Kyiv with seven self-propelled howitzers, in addition to five of the same artillery systems promised by the Netherlands.