BREAKING: In a reversal, the U.S. is now poised to approve sending M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, officials tell AP. The change comes as international reluctance toward sending tanks to the battlefront against the Russians begins to erode.
It’s also unknown how many tanks would be approved.
Ukrainian leaders have been urgently requesting tanks, but Germany had resisted mounting pressure either to supply its own tanks or clear the way for other countries, such as Poland, to send from from their own stocks. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the deployment of Western tanks would trigger “unambiguously negative” consequences.
U.S. and German officials have given mixed signals about whether the U.S. and German decisions are linked, and whether Berlin was hesitant to send its tanks unless the U.S. sent Abrams.
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