welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. president zelensky says he will continue to push allies to send tanks to ukraine after a meeting of 50 countries ended earlier with no agreement on the issue. ukraine says the tanks are needed to break the deadlock in the war. germany which hosted the meeting is under pressure to allow its leopard 2 tanks to be exported to ukraine. the new german defence minister says no decision has been made, but he added that berlin would not stand in the way of exports if its allies decided to act together. the uk has commited to sending 1a challenger ii tanks to the frontline. russia has warned that such a move would mark an extremely dangerous esculation. escalation. here s our europe correspondentjessica parker. this is what kyiv wants, but can t yet have. german made leopard tanks, to help defend and reclaim its territory from russia. britain has gone first in sending western main battle tanks, but it is a fract
nato allies and partners are providing significantly more support to ukraine. a soviet era tank in a war of today. front line ukrainian units are hungry for more modern weapons to help unfreeze this conflict. jessica parker, bbc news, in ramstein. michael o hanlon is a senior fellow and director of research in foreign policy at the brookings institution where he specializes in us defense strategy. thank you forjoining us. hesitation from the united states, isn t there? why doesn t america descend their tanks? i doesn t america descend their tanks? ~ , ., tanks? i think we should. i think we re tanks? i think we should. i think we re getting - tanks? i think we should. i think we re getting caught| tanks? i think we should. i. think we re getting caught up in technicalities of what the tank can do, it is hard to maintain and it basically runs ofjet fuel and requires of jet fuel and requires different logistic infrastructure but i think