who bought the spray, had time serves. prosecutors declined to charge the two men with sicknick s . western countries are pledging tanks to ukraine for the country to use in its defense. the training process is now under way, very quickly getting this together. the united kingdom ministry of defense tweeting these images over the weekend of ukrainian tank crews arriving in the uk to be trained on the challenger 2 tanks the uk is providing. the ukrainian ambassador to france said on friday that a total of 321 heavy tanks have been promised to ukraine from various countries. a four-star u.s. air force general is warning his officers to prepare for war with china within two years according to a memo obtained by nbc news.
ukrainian officials from the president zelenskyy on down are canning. we heard from the president a couple minutes ago. he said he was grateful for this announcement from germany that they are sending these tanks. but the key question is how quickly will they be on the battlefield alongside those american abrams and those british challenger tanks. ukrainian hope is they will get here in time to head off what they fear is going to be a renewed offensive by vladimir putin s forces, potentially in the next couple weeks. the reality is it is probably going to take a little longer than that. the first tanks we expect to see on the battlefield are likely to be those leopard 2s. they are here in europe already. they are used by countries some of which neighbor ukraine, including poland. the german chancellor said he s happy for ukrainian tank crews to begin training on those leopard 2s immediately. how long it will take for the m 1 depends on what president biden announces in the coming
february so from that date onwards i would guess is when both sides are thinking about making advances. this is why there is been such a hullabaloo over these tanks because really we are at the last moment for that political decision to be made because now those tanks have to be physically got into ukraine and the tank crews need to be trained and practised on them and the logistics pipeline needs to be set up. so i think the race is on to, now the decision has been made, to get those tanks in the field, get ukrainians trained on them and we are looking at end of february, beginning of march for the offensives from both sides, the russians and the ukrainians. sides, the russians and the ukrainians. ., «e ., ., ukrainians. thank you for “oining us. let s ukrainians. thank you for “oining let-s gofi ukrainians. thank you for “oining let-s go to i ukrainians. thank you for “oining us. let s go to berlin. ukrainians. thank you forjoining us. let s go to berlin. damien, l ukrai
russian armor smashed in a ukrainian assault. ukraine claims to have blocked russia s offensive against kyiv. he said we ve been engaged in counterattack and the operation has been a complete success. we decisively repelled the energy. at times it s been a ferocious fight, here ambushing russians from the air. tank crews are sent running for cover. ukraine has claimed that badly led russian forces have more manpower but they are reeling under attacks and lack of supplies. what they say may be true, according to this woman who is tending to her wounded husband in the nearby hospital. her village was overrun by
supplies. sam kiley visits a hospital in an eastern suburb of kyiv where locals have first hand accounts of what they say are badly led russian forces. reporter: russian armor smashed in a ukrainian assault east of the capital. ukraine now claims to have blocked russia s offensive against kyiv. he said we ve been engaged in a counter attack to recapture this place. it has been a complete success. we decisively repelled the enemy. at times it s been a ferocious infantry fight and it has taken several weeks. ukraine has also relied heavily on modern drones. here, ambushing russians from the air. tank crews are sent running for cover. ukraine has claimed that badly led russian forces do have more manpower but they are reeling under unexpected attacks and lack of supplies.