17-01-2023, 11:26 AM
(16-01-2023, 08:41 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Fourteen tanks doesn’t sound like a lot?
It isn’t and 14 Challenger 2 tanks on their own are not going to win a war, but it’s the shift in direction that’s important.
Earlier this month, France, Germany and the United States respectively promised so-called “light tanks” – an unspecified number of French AMX-10 RC, 40 German Marder, and 50 Bradley fighting vehicles.
Just for a start...
Germany in particular had been reluctant to send fighting vehicles, but every time one of the NATO allies pledges a step up in the sort of weapons it...but the timing of the comments is important.
They come ahead of a meeting this week of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group, which coordinates arms supplies to Kyiv, at Ramstein Air Base in Germany.
So there could be announcements of more weapons.
Britain tanks, Challenger 2 to Ukraine to Russia's T90 tanks fight. A Part of Soledar has indeed fallen to Putin forces. As accounts from both sides have depicted a “hellish” battle, amid claims by some Ukrainian combatants that they have heard Putin sending 40,000 Russian and heard 10,000 Wagner fighters – many of them convicts recruited to fight for the mining town... Soledar
https://youtu.be/4nxr2KaynZI