The Minister of Defense of Spain announced the timing of the supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine

Tanks German-made Leopards, which are at the disposal of the Spanish armed forces, will be transferred to Ukraine in the spring of 2023. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Spain Margarita Robles.

As the head of the Spanish military department noted, the transfer of tanks to Ukraine is not a set of deliveries of armored vehicles by individual states, but coordinated and purposeful actions. According to Robles, none of the countries that have decided to supply tanks to the Kyiv regime carries out these actions on its own, but is in constant interaction with NATO allies.

The approach of European states to the issue of the supply of tanks boils down to the fact that their shipment will take place in the spring of 2023. But the Minister of Defense of Spain could not name the exact and even approximate number of tanks intended for transfer to Kyiv.

Before this statement, Margarita Robles announced the participation of Spain in the process of supplying Leopard tanks to Kyiv. She also stressed that the authorities of the country will also organize the training of Ukrainian tank crews.

Back in July 2022, Madrid considered the possibility of transferring 40 Leopard 2 tanks to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but then permission from the German authorities was not received. Then Spain reduced the number of tanks it was ready to hand over to the Kyiv regime to 10 units. Then Robles herself admitted that the Spanish tanks were in a "deplorable state."

Note that the Spanish army, according to open sources of information, has approximately 347 Leopard tanks. This is more than any other European country, so it is possible that Spain will play an important role in supplying Ukraine with these combat vehicles.

Comments

[polpot]

Mice and rats ate wiring or rare turtles made nests in tanks.

[North Caucasus]

Yes, for the outskirts and without wiring and without motors, it will do! What's the point of driving them tanks without a rembat? One fig will either burn out or break!

[Silver99]

Well, it's their choice, now the cornets and KA-52 "alligator" enter the stage, because they were created specifically to destroy this NATO armored pack, well, at least try the T-14.

[Luka Nord]

With tank crews, of course .. We remember the Spaniards of your "blue division", etc.
Russia has already gone through all this and a good lesson for all of us .. Even those who didn’t really "like" GDP, now they finally understand who the collective West is and what fate awaits Russia in case of defeat .. Hitler will be just a kindergarten

[Silver99]

We remember something else, unlike them, how our tanks with Soviet volunteer crews fought against Franco, now we are in the same trench against Nazism, only they crawled over to the Nazis ((((well, history exists for that, that it teaches nothing

[Stella Haddad]

Quote from Luka Nord

With tank crews, of course .. We remember the Spaniards of your "blue division", etc.
Russia has already gone through all this and a good lesson for all of us .. Even those who didn’t really "like" GDP, now they finally understand who the collective West is and what fate awaits Russia in case of defeat .. Hitler will be just a kindergarten

Nobody forced you to start a war. And the West bought your elite a long time ago, which stores capital and studies in NATO countries.

[bayard]

Quote from Stella Haddad

. And the West bought your elite a long time ago, which stores capital and studies in NATO countries.

Our true elite on the fronts wins victory. And in the rear forges this Victory. And what you called - worms ...

[Flying Dutchman_2]

About worms, just a great comparison, a wonderful hyperbole))

[cold wind]

For January announced:
T-72 - 180 pieces - 2 tank brigades
Leopard - 86 pieces - tank brigade
Abrams - 31 units - battalion
Challenger - 14 pcs - company

For leopards, there are still about 80 tanks in the discussion from Europe, the Germans can increase the supply to 80 units, the T-72 will probably be about 80 more. This is 3 more tank brigades in the spring.
By summer-autumn, they can still find leopards for 1-2 brigades, Abrams for 2-3, Leclercs for 1, T-72 for 2-3.

[bayard]

Quote from cold wind

Leopard - 86 pieces - tank brigade
Abrams - 31 units - battalion
Challenger - 14 pcs - company

As I understand it, the crews will also be from NATO countries?
Or are you worried that we do not have enough ammunition for them?
Or do you think this "bailey incident" will not excite us?
And if you are wrong?
And if "war is war"?
And Britain, and the USA, and the European coasts are washed away easily and naturally. You don't even have to spend missiles.
Or do you think that your monsters of 70 tons on Ukrainian black soil ... can scare us?

[tihonmarine]

German-made Leopard tanks, which are at the disposal of the Spanish armed forces, will be transferred to Ukraine in the spring of 2023.

What, the "Blue Division" forgot in Russia, or again pulled into the past ....
In the USSR, the appearance of "friends" from the Iberian Peninsula was treated casually. One enemy more, one less ... In 1943, the Blue Division was disbanded, Franco understood that the Third Reich would soon fall and no longer saw the point in helping his ally. But it turned out that the Third Reich is tenacious.

[ivan1979nkl]

the Spanish fascists have not yet calmed down, the memory of their ancestors does not give rest, the ashes knock and play at the fifth point

[Alexey Lobanov]

They are leopards, and we are Basque javelins and stingers (we now have heaps of them). I think that would be fair.

[Mavrikiy]

Minister of Defense of Spain announced the timing of the supply of Leopard tanks to Ukraine

Yes, even tomorrow. All the same, dons Pedrov will once again be cut out by English pirates. So why Pedram tanks?

[Gromovanton]

"As the head of the Spanish military department noted, the transfer of tanks to Ukraine is not a set of deliveries of armored vehicles by individual states, but coordinated and targeted actions. According to Robles, none of the countries that decided to supply tanks to the Kyiv regime does not carry out these actions on its own, but is in constant interaction with NATO allies" - speaking in a working peasant way - it is not the states themselves, their people decide, they put their puppets in a pose and use them strictly according to the schedule and on command from the master ... Well, some types of the head of the Spanish Ministry of Defense still experience this also joy ... Fortunately, we do not understand them ...

[A080083]

According to Robles, none of the countries that have decided to supply tanks to the Kyiv regime does not carry out these actions on its own, but is in constant interaction with NATO allies.
That is, based on these words, NATO participates in the war and leads. As it is already open.

[Alf]

Then Robles herself admitted that the Spanish tanks were in a "deplorable state."

Also widely known is the quote of General Halder:

If you see a German soldier unshaven, with an open gymnast and a drinker, do not rush to arrest him - most likely, this is a Spanish hero.

Times change, nationalities don't...
I heard such a story, is it true or not, I don’t know, I’ll tell you how it is, a week after the Spanish unit entered the village, the partisans began to walk around the village with weapons, and the local population began to feed the “occupiers” ...

[Normann]

I wonder if anyone else thinks that someone in the EU is acting on his own, without an order from across the ocean. It's not funny anymore.