The pressure to find a successor is mounting also because U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is expected in Berlin on Thursday
and will attend a conference on Friday at the U.S. military base in Ramstein, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, to discuss further support for Ukraine, including whether to send German-built battle tanks.
Citing government sources, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper said a successor would be announced on Tuesday. Lambrecht was blamed by critics for failing to get the German armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, back in shape quickly, despite a 100-billion-euro special fund being agreed for that purpose after Russia invaded Ukraine.
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