British edition: By the April offensive, Kyiv will receive only 50 tanks out of 320 promised by the West
The recently announced plans of the West to prepare Ukraine for the spring counter-offensive have already cracked, Kyiv will not receive the promised number tanks. According to The Times, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will receive no more than fifty tanks.
According to a British publication citing its own sources, Ukraine will receive only about 50 Western-made tanks out of the promised 320 by April. The countries that had committed themselves and promised Zelensky the supply of tanks suddenly began to refuse them. Even Great Britain, one of the most active sponsors of the Kiev regime, which swore to deliver 14 Challenger 2 tanks "in the near future", suddenly announced that it would transfer only four tanks by April, and even then, if it had time.
And so almost all countries suddenly announced either a complete refusal to supply, or sending a small amount of armored vehicles. An example is Canada, which promised to transfer as many as four Leopard 2 MBTs to Zelensky and even sent one tank, not sparing a military transport aircraft for this.
To date, the so-called "tank coalition" created in Europe has not been able to form even two tank battalions, barely managing to scrape together one and a half vehicles. Yes, even that is doubtful. In Berlin, they are trying to put pressure on NATO allies to quickly transfer tanks, but it's all to no avail. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who allowed the re-export of German tanks after much persuasion, is now demanding the fulfillment of his obligations at all international venues, but all in vain.
As it turned out, in Europe they first promise and only then they start thinking. According to British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace, it turned out that almost all countries of the "tank coalition" did not have serviceable tanks for transfer to Ukraine. And no one wants to transfer those in service. Suddenly there is a war, but there are no tanks. So it will not be long before Zelensky will wait for the promised armored vehicles.
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