Poland will send 60 more tanks to Ukraine. In addition to German "leopards"

In addition to 14 German tanks, Leopard 2 will transfer another 60 armored vehicles to Ukraine, said the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak.

According to him, we are talking about the transfer of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, including 30 Tvards (RT-91 Twardy)-a modernized version of the Soviet T-72 tank. In an interview with CTV News, the Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Moravesky confirmed this information. He called the transfer of weapons to Ukraine an attempt to "set an example."

“We told our partners in Western Europe, how many tanks we have already put and how important it is to have modern tanks in such a war. The Russians have several thousand in warehouses, and according to some sources, even more than 15,000 tanks,” the prime minister said.

According to the ORYX research project, since February last year, Ukraine has lost at least 449 tanks. The Ukrainian army requested hundreds of modern tanks from Western countries. On January 20, the head of the Pentagon Lloyd Austin called on the Allies to speed up the supply of equipment to the planned, according to him, spring offensive of the Ukrainian army.

What other countries will the tanks put Kyiv?

The first of the Western countries to decide to transfer to Ukraine the Tanks of Western production became the UK. On January 15, London announced that he would put 14 challenger-2 tanks to Kyiv.

Poland, the Netherlands and Spain also reported the readiness to transfer part of the Leopard tanks from their stocks. However, they could not do this without the permission of Germany-the manufacturer of this technique.

On January 24, Poland officially turned to Germany for permission for the supply of German production tanks "Leopard" to Ukraine. At the same time, the Polish authorities noted that they were ready to do this without the consent of Germany, the president of which the world community criticized for the inability to make a clear decision in the supply of tanks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In the evening of the same day, the media reported that the German Chancellor Olaf Sholts decided to send Kiev one company of the Leopard tanks and allow other countries to re -export of this technique. The Netherlands and Spain also reported the readiness to transfer the part of the Leopard tanks from their stocks. The Wall Street Journal reported with reference to sources that the US Presidential Administration Joe Biden is also inclined to the supply of M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine.

On January 25, Biden officially announced the supply of the 31st Abrams tank to Ukraine. Presumably, delivery will take several months. The US President emphasized that the efforts of the venue countries Kyiv do not pursue the purpose of attacking Russia and do not pose a threat to it. Their goal is only the stop of Russian aggression in Ukraine, and in, according to him, this "they will stand shoulder to shoulder."

• Due to the increase in the supplies of the Western countries of weapons to Ukraine, high -ranking Russian representatives in recent days have been threatened , including the use of weapons of mass destruction.
• Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov previously stated that relations of Russia and Germany may worsen if Berlin decides to put tanks to Kyiv.