The White House agreed to send American tanks only to “break” Scholz into the Leopards.
American Abrams tanks will be delivered to Ukraine in late 2023 or early 2024, as they will be purchased from the assembly line. The Washington Post writes about this in a long article devoted to the epic with negotiations regarding the “Leopards”.
The authors of the publication spoke with a large number of officials who are somehow involved in the negotiations regarding the supply of Western tanks to Ukraine. They admitted that the US announced the delivery of the Abrams only because otherwise Berlin refused to send its Leopards.
In order to break Olaf Scholz’s resistance, the White House decided to announce the delivery of 31 M1A2 Abrams tanks to Kyiv. However, combat vehicles will not be taken from the warehouses of the American army, but new ones will be ordered from the manufacturer.
“They will be built without protection using depleted uranium and will be delivered at the end of this year or next,” the newspaper writes.
The interlocutors explained this decision by the fact that uranium armor is a secret technology, and the Pentagon does not want it to fall into the hands of Russia.
Supply of Western tanks to Ukraine
The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Oleksiy Reznikov expects that the Leopard and Challenger tanks will arrive in Ukraine already in March. This will allow them to be used in the spring campaign.
At the same time, US Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland said that the American Abrams tanks will definitely not arrive in Ukraine before the spring offensive.
However, this did not prevent Russian propagandists from declaring that the occupiers allegedly managed to destroy several Abrams aircraft in Ukraine.
