Kyiv hopes decision on heavy armour will pave way for Germany to allow re-export of Leopard 2s
Ukraine is confident Britain will announce it plans to send about 10 Challenger 2 tanks to Kyiv shortly, a move it hopes will help Germany finally allow its Leopard 2s to be re-exported to the embattled country.
German sources said Leopard 2 decision was fraught in governmental circles because of the legacy of the second world war, but what would help the chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is “other allied countries making similar decisions” to supply tanks. The official said they were optimistic Ukraine would eventually win, although that depended on “Ukrainian bravery” and “a continued flow of western arms,” they stressed. Moscow, meanwhile, had not yet run down its stocks and had 9,000 old T-62 tanks in reserve. Munitions factories were working “double shifts” and had stepped up production of artillery shells.
Ukraine has said it wants 300 western tanks as part of a wider resupply effort to help it drive out the invaders, because heavy armour is considered the only way possible to overwhelm the increasingly fortified Russian frontlines in the south and east of the country.
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