Poland to send 60 modernised tanks to Ukraine in addition to Leopards

WARSAW: Poland will deliver an further 60 tanks to Ukraine on prime of the 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks it has now pledged, the Polish key minister explained in an job interview with Canadian tv on Thursday (Jan 26).

Warsaw, which has positioned itself as 1 of Kyiv’s staunchest allies, experienced pressed tough for Germany to mail Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine and to allow for other nations to do so as very well, a demand from customers which Berlin agreed to on Wednesday.

“Poland sent 250 tanks as the initially state fifty percent a 12 months back or even additional than that,” Mateusz Morawiecki informed CTV News.

In April past year, two months following Russia invaded Ukraine, Poland stated it experienced sent tanks to aid Kyiv fend off the assault.

“Proper now, we are prepared to deliver 60 of our modernised tanks, 30 of them PT-91. And on major of individuals tanks, 14 tanks, Leopard 2 tanks, from in our possession.”

The PT-91 is a Polish-built fight tank that came into assistance in the 1990s. It was formulated from the Soviet-era T-72 assortment.