Now even British tanks have arrived in Ukraine
00:15 | The fourteen British Challenger 2 tanks that the UK had promised to deliver in January have arrived in Ukraine, Kyiv’s Defense Ministry said. The tanks should be deployed as early as spring. The Ukrainian defense minister praised the British Challengers, calling them “works of military art”. From London, the British government announced that Ukrainian crews are being trained to use tanks on the front lines.
On Monday, it was announced that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had received eighteen Leopard 2 main battle tanks from Germany, as well as forty German Marder infantry fighting vehicles and two armored recovery vehicles.
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