obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. president zelensky has made his appeal to this meeting of defence chiefs at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldiers in using the leopard 2s, but berlin gets to decide where the leopard tanks are deployed. the us is also under pressure to make its abrams tanks available to ukrainian forces. it has not said yes yet, but is offering other support. until putin ends this war, his war of choice, the nations of this contact group will continue to support the defence of ukraine in order to uphold the rules based international order. domestic politics, its past, and a fear of escalating the conflict all play into germany s caution. but this meeting was about more than just tanks, with much wider pledges of military aid and an air of urgency. front line ukrainian units are using soviet era tanks
warfare does notjust mean in stabilising the front line. actually, we are very grateful to our allies for their military support that we have received so far because, thanks to that support, we were able to stabilise the front line, we were able to stop the enemy from advancing, and we were able to even drive the enemy out of certain areas. but of course right now, for us to be able to defend our land, needs to be able to liberate our territories, and for this we need heavy tanks and armoured vehicles, and from this perspective, the ramstein today was very successful, and this is something that our minister of defence said today. but at the same time, it could have been even more successful because look, this was ramstein number eight and at the same time, for example, ukraine has been already the target of 12 massive missile attacks so we need to be as a coalition of free nations, we need to be one or a
but every day we make it more obvious there is no alternative to making the decision on tanks. president zelensky has made his appeal to this meeting of defence chiefs at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldiers in using the leopard 2s, but berlin gets to decide where the leopard tanks are deployed. the us is also under pressure to make its abrams tanks available to ukrainian forces. it has not said yes yet, but is offering other support. until putin ends this war, his war of choice, the nations of this contact group will continue to support the defence of ukraine in order to uphold the rules based international order. domestic politics, its past, and a fear of escalating the conflict all play into germany s caution. but this meeting was about more than just tanks, with much wider pledges of military aid and an air of urgency. frontline ukrainian units
at ramstein airbase. poland has agreed to train ukrainian soldiers in using the leopard 2s, but berlin gets to decide where the leopard tanks are deployed. the us is also under pressure to make its abrams tanks available to ukrainian forces. it has not said yes yet, but is offering other support. until putin ends this war, his war of choice, the nations of this contact group will continue to support the defence of ukraine in order to uphold the rules based international order. domestic politics, its past, and a fear of escalating the conflict all play into germany s caution. but this meeting was about more thanjust tanks, with much wider pledges of military aid and an air of urgency. frontline ukrainian units are using soviet era tanks they need modern equipment. they expect a spring offensive from russia and further battles to come. aruna iyengar, bbc news.
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