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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.

He warned “brutal and unjust war” is here will be “very difficult days, weeks and years ahead”, the US president said the Russian leader, Putin counted, “he’s just been plain wrong”.

One year later, the evidence is right here in this room. We stand here together. Biden pledged long-term support for Ukraine, saying that “freedom is priceless. It’s worth fighting for for as long as it takes. And that’s how we’re going to be with you.”

Zelenskiy: Talks with Biden ‘very fruitful’
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said his negotiations with his US counterpart, Joe Biden, were “very fruitful” during a joint press conference in Kyiv.

The Ukrainian leader described Biden’s visit to Ukraine as “the most important visit of the whole history of US-Ukraine relations” which underlines “the results we have already achieved” and the “historic achievements we might gain together with the whole world”.

He thanked the US president personally as well as Congress and the American people, ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The result of this visit will “surely have a reflection on the battlefield”, Zelenskiy said, adding that he and Biden discussed long-range weapons and the weapons “that may still be supplied to Ukraine”.

“Ukraine is grateful to you, Mr President,” Zelenskiy said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...ition-deal