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Ukraine plans to receive a sufficient number of German Leopard tanks for the formation of several battalions in the near future. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexey Reznikov.
In total, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine plans to have up to eight to nine battalions of German tanks in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, of which two will consist of Leopard 2 MBT, and six or seven more will be on Leopard 1 tanks. Where Reznikov plans to shove British Challenger 2 and American Abrams, he did not say.
- he explained, adding that Western countries are providing Ukraine with all possible support.
Meanwhile, as the Western press reports with reference to the statements of its leaders, by the spring of this year Ukraine will receive, at best, about 50 Leopard tanks of the second series. As German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius admitted, at the moment Europe can hardly scrape together one and a half battalions of Leopard 2A4 and 2A6 MBT, and it will be possible to talk about the delivery of the first Leopard 1 tanks in the middle of summer.
With the British Challenger 2, too, as it turned out, not everything is in order, the British can transfer only four tanks, although they promised to deliver fourteen by March. Some Americans are great, they stirred up Europe, and they themselves promised to deliver "Abrams" either at the end of this year, or next year. And then there's Biden with his promise to deliver 700 tanks against the background of the fact that they can't deliver 30 in any way.
