Spiegel: the German government approved the delivery of 178 Leopard tanks to Kyiv
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The German government approved the delivery of 178 Leopard 1 main battle tanks to Ukraine, transmits edition of Der Spiegel, citing sources.
The country’s Federal Security Council, according to sources, has approved the supply of a total of 178 Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine. Military equipment will be transferred from industry stocks. Leopard 1 tanks should be delivered to Ukraine this summer, but most of them will probably not be delivered until 2024, the publication concludes.
On January 25, Germany and the United States announced the delivery of 14 Leopard 2 tanks and 31 M1 Abrams tanks to Kyiv. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius specified that the first German military equipment would arrive in Ukraine in late March or early April. Poland, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands also announced plans to transfer tanks to Kyiv. In addition, Great Britain is going to send its Challenger 2 to Ukraine.
In January, the Kremlin said that the supply of tanks to Kyiv would not change the situation, but would “add problems” for Ukraine. Later, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stressed that the Leopard and Abrams tanks, which the West is going to transfer to Ukraine, will burn down in the same way as the rest of Western military equipment.
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