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Armored vehicles deployed in the war against Russia are of the same model operated by the Brazilian military
Per Robson Bonin
Updated 4/29/2022 4:46 PM Posted 4/29/2022 6:01 AM
Largescale operation of Brazil’s German Leopard tank is sent by the European country to the battlefront in Ukraine // Disclosure
It took a while, but Jair Bolsonaro reached a crossroads in Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Germany decided to send Leopard tanks to reinforce the Ukrainian side of the conflict.
Brazil, which has the world’s largest missile magazine of the 1960s other armed forces no longer use this type of weapon caliber was contracted by the Germans to supply ammunition.
The request to the Brazilian government does not envisage sending missiles directly to Ukraine. Brazil would donate the ammunition to the Germans. Nevertheless, Bolsonaro wants to distance himself from the topic so as not to offend Russia.
Sources in the government’s military branch, heard by Radar, say the chance that Brazil will send the missiles is nil.
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