certainly not enough to drive russia out, so that s the second issue. the support has been there but then, we have to get into what is the actual objective of all of this? that s a good point because the pledges and promises are one thing but putting it into pro this is a completely different matter and case in point, coming up to the year anniversary of this invasion and ukraine is only now getting tanks from germany and poland. what are the practical challenges with getting military hardware to ukraine? they are nowjust getting the pledges, only a handful of tanks have come across but for example the american abrams tanks that are promised might not be there for a full year, they may not even get there until early 2024, and even the german tanks, they are talking about the leopard two, the more modern ones, being fewer than they thought so they will now give the older ones which is not that much of an upgrade over the t 72 is they already have so the issue with using
to create a sense of urgency but if he creates a sense of false, unrealistic expectation, that could be dangerous as well because i think what we re going to have to recognise is even if we did accelerate the delivery of more tanks or some attack helicopters or longer range missiles, chances are this is still gonna be a long, slow grind. so, the german chancellor also told the conference that leopard tanks will be arriving in ukraine soon. how much difference will they make to the ukrainian offensive? i would say, notionally speaking, ten or 20%. that s a little bit of an imprecise figure but i guess what i mean by that is if ukraine was going to win back, you know, 500 square kilometres of territory without the tanks, maybe it wins back a few hundred square kilometres more with the tanks it s that sort of thing. i mean, we ll have to see, and i like the idea that we re signalling this resolve, starting with britain and also now the united states and germany and other countries like
drive longer drive missiles. so the tanks will be arriving soon, how much difference will they make to the offensive? notionally speaking, ten or 20%, that s a little bit of an imprecise figure but i guess what i mean by that is if ukraine was going to win back 500 square kilometres of territory without the tanks, maybe it wins back a few hundred square kilometres more with them. it s that sort of thing. we will have to see, and i like the idea that we re signalling this resolve, starting with britain and also now the united states and germany other countries like poland, but it does not really change battlefield reality is that fast. ukraine has already had tanks, a lot of t 72 tanks last year, they are not as good and they wore out, but it is not as if anyone weapon will be the silver bullet. the silver bullet. michael o hanlon. the silver bullet. michael o hanlon, thank- the silver bullet. michael o hanlon, thank you - the silver bullet. michaelj o hanlon, thank you very the s
includes the refurbished t 72 tanks which the united states, the netherlands and the czech republic are in the process of delivering. as well as poland s latest donation of t 72. it includes the important steps from germany, poland, canada, portugal, spain, norway, denmark and the netherlands on leopard battle tanks. we also heard today about significant new defence relations. that includes italy and france which jointly announced that they will provide ukraine with an air defence system. france also announced that it will work with australia to ramp up it will work with australia to ramp up 155 millimetres ammunition production to support ukraine. let me also thanks, finally, norway, whichjust announced