German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has promised Ukraine that Berlin will finance direct arms deliveries from German industry. “We have asked the German arms industry to tell us which material it can supply in the near future,” Scholz said, adding that Berlin was coordinating with Kiev over what Ukraine needs and would supply the funding needed. He listed anti-tank weapons, air defence equipment, ammunition “and also what can be used in an artillery engagement” as possible weapons that could be supplied. In addition, NATO partners supplying Soviet-designed weapons to Ukraine would receive replacemen…