The Netherlands announced plans to supply Ukraine with 100 Leopard 1 tanks
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The Netherlands, together with Denmark, plan to purchase about 100 Leopard 1 tanks from Germany for their further delivery to Ukraine. This was reported by the Netherlands Broadcasting Corporation (NOS) with reference to the Minister of Defense of the Netherlands Kaisa Ollongren, transmits TASS.
According to NOS, we are talking about modernized tanks that are in the stocks of the German defense industry. It is specified that they were decommissioned in Germany in 2003. In addition, the countries intend to send spare parts for tanks and ammunition to Kyiv.
It is specified that the supply of Leopard 1 tanks is carried out independently of the more modern Leopard 2 tanks, which are sent to Berlin allowed January 24th. “The supply of tanks is important” as the conflict in Ukraine “entered a critical stage,” reports NOS.
Earlier today Der Spiegel newspaper informedthat Berlin approved the delivery of 178 Leopard 1 main battle tanks to Kyiv. They will be delivered to Ukraine this summer.
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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