Throughout the winter, Ukrainian officials have pressed the West for hundreds of modern battle tanks like those made by the U.S. announced plans to send 31 M1 Abrams tanks. Germany will send an initial shipment of 14 Leopard 2 battle tanks, and allow other countries to send their own, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz. both announced they would send modern battle tanks to Ukraine. On Wednesday, that hesitation evaporated when Germany and the U.S. and its NATO allies announced package after package of military aid to Ukraine, full of military vehicles, air defense systems, rockets and missiles, the West for months seemed to hesitate on the one thing Ukrainians have come to emphasize most: tanks. A German Leopard 2 battle tank pictured during a NATO training exercise in Lithuania last October.Įven as the U.S.
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