The defense minister did not say how many Leopard main battle tanks had been delivered to the neighboring country to the east.
Poland delivered the first Leopard main battle tanks to Ukraine. At the same time, Ukrainian soldiers are being trained by Polish, Canadian and Norwegian instructors at the Leopard Training Center in Swietoszow, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said in Warsaw on Friday. He did not say how many Leopard main battle tanks had been delivered to the neighboring country to the east.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki traveled to Kiev on Friday to lay flowers on the wall of the memorial to those who died in the war, together with Prime Minister Denys Szmychal, on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Morawiecki also met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
cooperation with Germany
Cooperation with Germany plays an important role in Poland’s action, said Blaszczak. Both countries want to deliver 14 Leopard 2 main battle tanks to Ukraine. Before that, Poland had put a lot of pressure on Germany in the discussion about deliveries. On January 11, President Andrzej Duda announced in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv that his country had decided to equip Ukrainians with Leopard main battle tanks.
A little later, the Polish government submitted a corresponding export request to the German federal government, which had to agree to the transfer of German tanks. In doing so, she continued to put pressure on Berlin. In the end, the federal government decided to supply 14 main battle tanks itself and approve the export order.
(APA)