The US may deliver a significant number of Abrams tanks to Ukraine despite misgivings from the Pentagon. The U.S. and Germany have disagreed over who should supply tanks.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on the need for Germany and U.S. to send tanks to Ukraine and the latest in Biden’s classified document scandalas early as this week, a U.S. official confirmed to Fox News on Tuesday.
The U.S. and Germany have bickered for weeks regarding which should provide heavy tanks to Ukraine amid spiking threats of renewed ground aggression from Russia. The Pentagon has argued that Abrams tanks require more complicated maintenance and would be more expensive to deliver to Ukraine than Germany's Leopard tanks. German Leopards are already stationed in Ukraine's neighboring Poland, for instance.
Nevertheless, Biden moved on the issue following a January 17 call with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and is now leaning toward providing tanks,The news comes as Germany itself was facing increased pressure to deliver the tanks, and a deal would now likely include Germany supplying a smaller number of Leopards while also giving allies like Poland the green light to share their own German-built tanks with Ukraine.
British soldiers chat next to US Abrams tanks, on the second day of joint military exercises at the training ground in Nowa Deba, Poland on September 21, 2022. Widak/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Poland had threatened to deliver Leopard tanks to Ukraine even without German approval on Monday, a move Germany's foreign minister had said the country"would not" oppose.
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