Germany will provide anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Saturday. “The Russian attack marks a turning point. It is our duty to do our best to help Ukraine defend against the invading army of Putin. That’s why we’re supplying 1,000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to our friends in Ukraine,” he wrote in a Twitter post. This is a major reversal of Berlin’s longstanding policy of banning weapon exports to battle zones. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky welcomed Germany’s change of stance: “Keep it up, Chancellor Olaf Scholz! Anti-war coalition in action!” Berlin Saturday authorized NATO partners the Netherlands and Estonia to deliver German-made weapons to Ukraine. The batch of weapons included 400 RPGs from the Netherlands and old GDR howitzers from Estonia. Germany has a long-standing policy of not exporting weapons to war zones, rooted partly in its bloody 20th-century history and resulting …