“I want to thank Germany, Britain and the United States for making the decision” to send their tanks to Ukraine, “but frankly, the number of tanks and the delivery time to Ukraine are crucial”. This was stated today by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy which uses diplomatic formulas to express what various analysts express more crudely: Kyiv will do little with these numbers. The cars scheduled to come in from the United States and Germany number a few dozen, less than fifty in all. To really have one substantial influence in the confrontation with Russia it would take hundredsexplain the experts. Then there is the issue of timing. Berlin spoke of about three months until the first crawlers crossed the Ukrainian border. And the Leopards are the most operational asset and least problematic in terms of the logistics chain to keep them operational and for troop training. For the US Abrams, “enlistment times” could be even longer. The training of the Kiev armed forces on Abrams tanks “will start soon”, he said Joe Biden Indication that they are very complex tanks and so on “it will take”. In short, we won’t talk about it until May.
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delivery times must be crossed with those of Moscow. Within March Apriland a major offensive is expected by the Russian army, which has used these months to reorganize. That goes for that date of Western tanks that should face the Russian T90, there won’t even be half. “I had talks with the NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg further consolidation of partners in support of Ukraine, in particular coalition expansion of tanks and unlocking qualitatively new weapon types,” the Ukrainian President wrote on Twitter. War is also against time.
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