
Poland will deliver the remaining 10 of 14 Leopard tanks it promised to give to Ukraine as of this week, Mariusz Błaszczak, the country’s defense minister, announced on Tuesday.
Poland provided Ukraine with four of its German-made Leopards during the visit of Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to Kyiv on February 24.
Ukraine has been asking the West to supply it with modern main battle tanks for a number of months now, arguing it would help give their forces a decisive edge in repelling the Russian invading forces.
“Poland will deliver [the remaining] 10 Leopard 2A4s to Ukraine this week,” Błaszczak told a press briefing on Tuesday before leaving for Stockholm for a meeting of EU defense ministers.
He added that Warsaw is ready to establish a service hub for the tanks handed over to Ukraine at the Bumar-Labedy military equipment-producing plant in southern Poland, but at the moment the main problem is the lack of spare parts.Deputy Prime Minister @mblaszczak: Today, in Stockholm, there will be an EU defense ministers' meeting dedicated to the safety of Europe. We will talk about supporting Ukraine, but also about our European resilience to threats against security. https://t.co/qbj7JSUxpA
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