germany started its training on the same tank just yesterday. so you can see 400 tanks, 21 crews are going to take a month here. it s going to be a big build, perhaps to the end of the year before they can have the right number of tank crews ready. and then fighting in formation, that s a whole another skill to learn as well. yeah. it takes time and, of course, raises questions about the timeline of the country s now agreeing to give them. nic robertson, thank you. i m so glad you re there. ahead, we re going to break down a new memo coming out of the pentagon about the object shot down over canada. the white house john kirby and senator mike rounds on the intelligence committee are both going to join us next. try bn with 20 grams of protein for muscle health versus 16 gramams in ensure® high protein. boost® high protein. now available in cinnabon® bakery-inspired flflavor. learn more at boost.com/m/tv i ve never been healththier. shingles doesn t care. but shingrix protects. pr
battle tanks and is sending 14 of poland s came to meet the ukrainian crews and see their progress. his visit providing big publicity for poland s commitment to ukraine. flavor of what u.s. president joe biden will hear when he visits next week. a pitch for a joint tank brigade. translator: i hope that soon the brigades will be ready for ukraine and also includes american abram s tanks so that ukraine can counter the russian offensive. reporter: the tanks and the training only part of readying this new force for war. translator: the biggest challenge now is spare parts for these tanks. we are setting this task to the german defense industry. reporter: for the ukrainian tank crews, patiently parked up
important training on tanks. after just a week of training, ukrainian tank crews show off their new skills on a polish gun range. the first time the leopard ii training has been put on display. the crews pull direct from ukraine s eastern battle front. too soon to say what s best about the leopard 2, ukraine s tank trainer says, but the machine is good quality. and what is most important, my soldiers like it a lot. they re training fast-tracked. 12 hours a day, six days a week. compared to the polish standard, eight hours a day, five days a week. polish instructors say the ukrainians will be ready in a month. most of them have some tank skills already, the polish brigadier in charge says. they re so keen to learn. we have to hold them back.
seem all together enthusiastic about the idea. the americans sending the m1 abrams tank and the germans sending the leopard 2 tank. so it does appear that logjam has been broken. however, it s important to stress that it s going to take quite a while to get the tanks here. and also, to train the crews. according to authorities on this matter, it could take up to six months to train ukrainian tank crews on the abrams. that could obviously be accelerated, as we ve seen with other weapons systems. but the leopard 2 takes about two to three months to train a crew. plus, of course, the logistics, the mechanics that are going to have to service these tanks, which take a lot of servicing, by the way. so it s not going to be immediate. but what we ve seen after weeks of covering the fighting in the eastern ukraine is that the ukrainians are desperately in need of modern tanks.