Spain will ship ten Leopard tanks to Ukraine, six in “subsequent dates”

The Defense Minister, Margarita Robles, in a current picture. Europa Press

The Government introduced that the primary Leopards could be shipped within the spring and this begins subsequent week. Spain has introduced that it’s going to ship “within the close to future” six ‘Leopard’ 2A4 battle tanks to Ukraine after it has been tuned up and can add one other 4 automobiles in a while. In addition, it is going to ship a brand new batch of armored personnel carriers.

This was acknowledged this Wednesday by Defense Minister Margarita Robles on the ministerial-level assembly of the Contact Group for the protection of Ukraine, convened by the US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin.

The Ukrainian Defense Minister, Oleksii Reznikov, additionally took half in it, presenting the most recent information on the scenario on the bottom and stating probably the most pressing wants of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

In his speech, Robles introduced the supply “within the close to future” of six Leopard 2A4 tanks, to which a second batch of 4 different items shall be added later. Just this Tuesday, 55 Ukrainian troopers accomplished 4 weeks of instruction in Zaragoza to coach as crew and upkeep groups for these automobiles.

To them shall be added a brand new batch of TOA M-113 infantry automobiles, that are added to the twenty that the Ministry of Defense already despatched to Ukraine a month in the past.

In addition, Robles recalled the coaching actions for Ukrainian personnel which can be being carried out below the course of the Toledo Training Coordination Center throughout the framework of the European Union Assistance Mission for Ukraine and with which, so far, extra More than 850 troopers have already been skilled in Spain in very various specialties.